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This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.
The twin operations of condensation and rarefaction may have seemed sufficient to explain the generation, and the composition, of stuffs such as vapour and rock, wood and flesh; but they are plainly impotent to generate substances, ...
(1970), Hegel, G. W. F., Philosophy of Nature, 3 vols, Allen & Unwin, London. Plantinga, A. (1974) The Nature of Necessity, Clarendon Press. Poincare, J. H. [1914], Science and method, tr. F. Maitland, Dover, New York, n.d. Popper, ...
Panchen (1982) has pointed out that Popper's arg— uments are not unchallenged by other philosophers of science. His emphasis on falsifiability is directed toward universal statements that are embodied in general scientific hypotheses ...
IfIcanbe undergoing an illusionwhen, on thebasis of my present experience, I judge, for example, that my cigarette caseislying onthe tableinfront ofme, I may, insaying that Iseethe cigarette case,be claimingmore than theexperience ...
Moore then replied to Wittgenstein's reply, entitling his talk “P but I do not believe P.” “Moore's Paradox” addressed such propositions as “Smith left the room but I don't believe it” and “There is a fire in this room and I don't ...
AYER, A.J. (1) Language, Truth and Logic, Dover Publications, New York, n.d. (2) 'Freedom and Necessity', in Ayer (3). (3) Philosophical Essays, Macmillan, London, 1959. (4) Logical Positivism (ed. A.J.Ayer), Free Press, Chicago, 1959.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Editor: Ted Honderich Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London The purpose of ... Mill *Nietzsche *Pierce *Karl Popper Santayana *Plato *The Presocratic Philosophers *Thomas Reid *Russell *Sartre ...
The facts are that Jones is insane and is widely believed to have uniquely murdered Smith, though Robinson, who is sane, is the true murderer. Jones is such that S intends, by his utterance of 'The murderer of Smith is insane', ...