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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

(Routledge Classics)

By Karl R. Popper

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| Paperback | 9780415278447

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Logik der Forschung is a 1934 book by Karl Popper. It was originally written in German, but reformulated in English by Popper himself some years later, to be published as The Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1959. This forms the rare case of a major work to appear in two languages, both written by tContinue

Logik der Forschung is a 1934 book by Karl Popper. It was originally written in German, but reformulated in English by Popper himself some years later, to be published as The Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1959. This forms the rare case of a major work to appear in two languages, both written by the author instead of being translated. Sir Peter Medawar called it "one of the most important documents of the twentieth century In it, Popper argued that science should adopt a methodology based on falsification, because no number of experiments can ever prove a theory, but a single experiment can contradict one. Popper holds that empirical theories are characterized by falsifiability

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  • The Romantic Rationalist

    Apart from his celebrated writings on the “open society” and its enemies, Karl Popper is chiefly known as a logician of science who has denied that science employs induction, and who has claimed that what demarcates science from nonscience, in partic ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

  • The ‘Truth’ of Karl Popper

    Karl Popper is the author of a striking treatise on scientific method, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, as well as the celebrated wartime tract against totalitarianism notorious for its irreverent denunciations of Plato and Hegel, The Open Society ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  • Important book for me. Real, full-strength philosophy. It's conclusions about science and falsifiability are useful, but it fits evolutionary biology awkwardly.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 544 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0415278449
  • ISBN-13: 9780415278447
  • Publisher: TF-ROUTL
  • Pub date: Mar 29, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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