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Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account

dc.contributor.authorCorkett, Christopher J.
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-31T12:52:07Z
dc.date.available2012-10-31T12:52:07Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-31
dc.description.abstractIt has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a modification of Aristotle's distnction between the notions 'all' and 'some'. This document traces this distinction anew in a way that corrects my earlier (Corkett, 1997) account in which a semantic rather than a logical view was taken of this distinction. For example: when writing the 1997 paperI was not aware that the universal law "All swans are white' represented a universal categorical proposition 'All S is P' where 'S' represented the subject 'swan' and the 'P' represented the predicate 'white'. In this document I try to cover some of the main points of my 1997 paper in a way that clarifies their origin in the Law of Tripartite Entailment, a logical rule unknown to me fifteen years ago.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/15671
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAristotle
dc.subjectLaw of Tripartite Entailment
dc.subjectKarl Popper's non-inductive theory of method
dc.subjectFalsificationist's view of science
dc.subjectVerificationist's view of science
dc.subjectFisheries management
dc.titleSome notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier accounten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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