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Refined Verisimilitude (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002)
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Refined Verisimilitude (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002)
Series: Synthese Library, 307
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The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth
research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Popper's
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 Popper's formal explication could not be used to
compare false theories. Subsequently, many researchers proposed
alternatives or tried to improve Popper's original definition."
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