Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland
The anthology presents a selection of methodological writings pub lished by Polish logicians after World War 11 (the first of them dated 1947). All the papers belong to what may be called Logical Methodology or Logical Theory of Science. The epithet 'logical' characterizes rather the gene...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1977, 1977
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Methodology and Metascience
- The Problem of the Rationality of Fallible Methods of Inference
- The Problem of Justifying Analytic Sentences
- Axiomatic Systems from the Methodological Point of View
- The Problem of Probabilistic Justification of Enumerative Induction
- Enumerative Induction and the Theory of Games
- On Testability in Empirical Sciences
- On the Theoretical Sense of the So-Called Observational Terms and Sentences
- The Pragmatic Foundations of Semantics
- Mathematical and Empirical Verifiability
- Meaning and Functional Reason
- On a Certain Condition of Semantic Theory of Knowledge
- On the Difference between Deductive and Non-Deductive Sciences
- On Ostensive Definitions
- The Controversy: Deductivism versus Inductivism
- Concepts and Problems in General Methodology and Methodology of the Practical Sciences
- The Foundations of a Methodological Analysis of Mill’s Methods
- Semantic Representation of the Probability of Formulas in Formalized Theories
- Classification as a Kind of Distance Function. Natural Classifications
- The Physical Magnitude and Experience
- Probabilistic Definition on the Example of the Definition of Genotype
- Analytic Sentences in the Semantic System
- The Model of Empirical Sciences in the Concepts of the Creators of Marxism
- On the Empirical Meaningfulness of Sentences
- A Model-Theoretic Approach to the Problem of Interpretation of Empirical Languages
- Empirical Meaningfulness of Quantitative Statements
- The Problem of Analyticity
- A Method of Deciding between N Statistical Hypotheses
- Interpretations of the Maximum Likelihood Principle
- Two Concepts of Information
- Semantical Criteria of Empirical Meaningfulness
- Basic Concepts of Formal Methodology of Empirical Sciences
- Rational Belief, Probability and theJustification of Inductive Inference