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Karl R. Popper The logic of scientific discovery. Translated by the author with the assistance of Julius Freed and Lan Freed. New York: Basic Books, 1959. 479 pp. $7.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Haskell Fain
Haskell Fain*
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University of Wisconsin
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1961 , pp. 319 - 324
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1961

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1 Some of the topics presented in the new appendices are: a formalization of probability theory in which p(a,b) = 1 if p(b) = 0; arguments designed to prove that the ‘absolute’ probability of a law is always zero and hence the conditional probability of a law given any evidence is always zero; criticisms of Carnap's proposal that a statement x is confirmed by evidence y if and only if p(x,y) > p(x); an explication of the concept of degree of confirmation or corroboration and a discussion of the concept of physical necessity.