The Logic Of Scientific Discovery
Subtitle: 14th Printing
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780203994627
Subjects: Science
Description: When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; TRANSLATORS' NOTE; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1934; PREFACE TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 1959; 1 A SURVEY OF SOME FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS; 2 ON THE PROBLEM OF A THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD; 3 THEORIES; 4 FALSIFIABILITY; 5 THE PROBLEM OF THE EMPIRICAL BASIS; 6 DEGREES OF TESTABILITY; 7 SIMPLICITY; 8 PROBABILITY; 9 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON QUANTUM THEORY; 10 CORROBORATION, OR HOW A THEORY STANDS UP TO TESTS; APPENDIX i; APPENDIX ii; APPENDIX iii; APPENDIX iv; APPENDIX v; APPENDIX vi; APPENDIX vii; NOTE TO NEW APPENDICES, 1959 EDITION; APPENDIX *i.