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【资料名称】:The Logic Of Scientific Discovery 【资料描述】:
When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the 20th century.
CONTENTS
Translators’ Note xii
Preface to the First Edition, 1934 xv
Preface to the First English Edition, 1959 xviiiPART I Introduction to the Logic of Science1 A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems 31 The Problem of Induction
2 Elimination of Psychologism
3 Deductive Testing of Theories
4 The Problem of Demarcation
5 Experience as a Method
6 Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation7 The Problem of the ‘Empirical Basis’
8 Scientific Objectivity and Subjective Conviction2 On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method 279 Why Methodological Decisions are Indispensable10 The Naturalistic Approach to the Theory of Method11 Methodological Rules as Conventions
PART II Some Structural Components of a Theory of Experience3 Theories 37
12 Causality, Explanation, and the Deduction of Predictions13 Strict and Numerical Universality
14 Universal Concepts and Individual Concepts15 Strictly Universal and Existential Statements16 Theoretical Systems
17 Some Possibilities of Interpreting a System of Axioms18 Levels of Universality. The Modus Tollens4 Falsifiability 57
19 Some Conventionalist Objections
20 Methodological Rules
21 Logical Investigation of Falsifiability22 Falsifiability and Falsification
23 Occurrences and Events
24 Falsifiability and Consistency
5 The Problem of the Empirical Basis 74
25 Perceptual Experiences as Empirical Basis:
Psychologism
26 Concerning the So-Called ‘Protocol Sentences’
27 The Objectivity of the Empirical Basis28 Basic Statements
29 The Relativity of Basic Statements. Resolution ofFries’s Trilemma
30 Theory and Experiment
6 Degrees of Testability 95
31 A Programme and an Illustration
32 How are Classes of Potential Falsifiers to be Compared?
33 Degrees of Falsifiability Compared by Means of theSubclass Relation
34 The Structure of the Subclass Relation.
Logical Probability
35 Empirical Content, Entailment, and Degreesof Falsifiability
36 Levels of Universality and Degrees of Precisionviii contents
37 Logical Ranges. Notes on the Theory of Measurement38 Degrees of Testability Compared by Referenceto Dimensions
39 The Dimension of a Set of Curves
40 Two Ways of Reducing the Number of Dimensionsof a Set of Curves
7 Simplicity 121
41 Elimination of the Aesthetic and the PragmaticConcepts of Simplicity
42 The Methodological Problem of Simplicity43 Simplicity and Degree of Falsifiability44 Geometrical Shape and Functional Form
45 The Simplicity of Euclidean Geometry
46 Conventionalism and the Concept of Simplicity8 Probability 133
47 The Problem of Interpreting Probability Statements48 Subjective and Objective Interpretations49 The Fundamental Problem of the Theory of Chance50 The Frequency Theory of von Mises
51 Plan for a New Theory of Probability
52 Relative Frequency within a Finite Class53 Selection, Independence, Insensitiveness, Irrelevance54 Finite Sequences. Ordinal Selection andNeighbourhood Selection
55 n-Freedom in Finite Sequences
56 Sequences of Segments. The First Form of theBinomial Formula
57 Infinite Sequences. Hypothetical Estimatesof Frequency
58 An Examination of the Axiom of Randomness59 Chance-Like Sequences. Objective Probability60 Bernoulli’s Problem
61 The Law of Great Numbers (Bernoulli’s Theorem)62 Bernoulli’s Theorem and the Interpretation ofProbability Statements
63 Bernoulli’s Theorem and the Problem of Convergencecontents ix
64 Elimination of the Axiom of Convergence. Solutionof the ‘Fundamental Problem of the Theory of Chance’
65 The Problem of Decidability
66 The Logical Form of Probability Statements67 A Probabilistic System of Speculative Metaphysics68 Probability in Physics
69 Law and Chance
70 The Deducibility of Macro Laws from Micro Laws71 Formally Singular Probability Statements72 The Theory of Range
9 Some Observations on Quantum Theory 20973 Heisenberg’s Programme and the
Uncertainty Relations
74 A Brief Outline of the Statistical Interpretation ofQuantum Theory
75 A Statistical Re-Interpretation of theUncertainty Formulae
76 An Attempt to Eliminate Metaphysical Elements byInverting Heisenberg’s Programme; with Applications77 Decisive Experiments
78 Indeterminist Metaphysics
10 Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests 24879 Concerning the So-Called Verification of Hypotheses80 The Probability of a Hypothesis and the Probabilityof Events: Criticism of Probability Logic81 Inductive Logic and Probability Logic
82 The Positive Theory of Corroboration: How aHypothesis may ‘Prove its Mettle’
83 Corroborability, Testability, and Logical Probability84 Remarks Concerning the Use of the Concepts ‘True’
and ‘Corroborated’
85 The Path of Science
APPENDICES
i Definition of the Dimension of a Theory 283ii The General Calculus of Frequency in Finite Classes 286x contents
iii Derivation of the First Form of the BinomialFormula 290
iv A Method of Constructing Models of RandomSequences 293
v Examination of an Objection. The Two-SlitExperiment 297
vi Concerning a Non-Predictive Procedure ofMeasuring 301
vii Remarks Concerning an Imaginary Experiment 305NEW APPENDICES
*i Two Notes on Induction and Demarcation,1933–1934 312
*ii A Note on Probability, 1938 319
*iii On the Heuristic Use of the Classical Definitionof Probability 325
*iv The Formal Theory of Probability 329
*v Derivations in the Formal Theory of Probability 356*vi On Objective Disorder or Randomness 369*vii Zero Probability and the Fine-Structure ofProbability and of Content 374
*viii Content, Simplicity, and Dimension 392*ix Corroboration, the Weight of Evidence, andStatistical Tests 402
*x Universals, Dispositions, and Natural orPhysical Necessity 440
*xi On the Use and Misuse of Imaginary
Experiments, Especially in Quantum Theory 464*xii The Experiment of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen.
A Letter from Albert Einstein, 1935 481
INDICES, compiled by Dr. J. Agassi
Name Index 489
Subject Index 494
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