Induction versus Popper: substance versus semantics
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Induction versus Popper: substance versus semantics.
This article reviews concepts of classical logic and induction, with special attention to the controversies surrounding Popperian claims that induction is impossible and does not exist. I argue that some of the controversy is semantic, and hence Popperian criticisms of induction must be translated carefully into ordinary language to be appreciated by inductively oriented epidemiologists. With t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/27.4.543