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.author | Corkett, Christopher J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-31T12:52:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-31T12:52:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-10-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | It 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15671 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Aristotle | |
dc.subject | Law of Tripartite Entailment | |
dc.subject | Karl Popper's non-inductive theory of method | |
dc.subject | Falsificationist's view of science | |
dc.subject | Verificationist's view of science | |
dc.subject | Fisheries management | |
dc.title | 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 | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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