Description: Refined Verisimilitude, Hardcover by Zwart, Sjoerd D., ISBN 1402002688, ISBN-13 9781402002687, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Poppers Conjectures and Refutations. In the decade before this publication, Popper fiercely attacked the ideas of Rudolf Carnap about confirmation and induction; and ten years later, in the famous tenth chapter of Conjectures he introduced his own ideas about scientific progress and verisimilitude (cf. the quotation on page 6). Abhorring inductivism for its apprecia tion of logical weakness rather than strength, Popper tried to show that fallibilism could serve the purpose of approach to the truth. To substantiate this idea he formalized the common sense intuition about preferences, that is: B is to be preferred to A if B has more advantages andfewer drawbacks than A. In 1974, however, David Millerand Pavel Tichy proved that Poppers formal explication could not be used to compare false theories. Subsequently, many researchers proposed alternatives or tried to improve Poppers original definition.
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Book Title: Refined Verisimilitude
Number of Pages: 263 Pages
Publication Name: Refined Verisimilitude
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Science
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1230 g
Author: S.D. Zwart
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Synthese Library
Format: Hardcover
