The Popper-Carnap Controversy (Paperback)
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The Popper-Carnap Controversy
1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error. The error was presumably committed by J. M. Keynes, H. Reichen bach and R. Carnap. 2 It was Popper's intention then, to expose the error and to introduce an explicatum for the prescientific concept of degree of confirmation. A few months later Y. Bar-Hillel published an article attempting to show that no serious error had been committed (particularly by Carnap) and that the problem introduced by Popper was simply a "verbal one. "3 Popper replied immediately that "Dr. Bar-Hillel forces me [Popper] now to criticize Carnap's theory further," and he [Popper] introduced further objections which, if accepted, destroy Carnap's theory. 4 About eight years after this exchange took place I was in graduate school at the University of Chicago in search of a topic for a doctoral dissertation. An investigation of the issues involved in this exchange seemed to be ideal for me because I had (and still have) a great ad miration for the work of both Carnap and Popper. A thoroughly revised and I hope improved account of that investigation appears in the first five chapters of this book. Put very briefly, what I found were four main points of contention.
Specification of The Popper-Carnap Controversy
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Author | Alex C. Michalos |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1971 |
ISBN-10 | 9024751276 |
ISBN-13 | 9789024751273 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication Year | 1971 |
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Height | 6.3 inch. |
Length | 0.32 inch. |
Width | 9.45 inch. |
Weight | 0.45 pounds. |
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