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The Tension Between Falsificationism and Realism: a Critical Examination of a Problem in the Philosophy of Karl Popper
Karl Popper's philosophy of science includes both falsificationism and realism. I explore the relationship between these two positions in his philosophy and find a strong tension between them. Drawing upon this tension in Popper's philosophy, I explore the general relationship between …
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Karl R. Popper lettore dei presocratici
… the notion of an instrumental projection of the falsificationism on the ancient philosophy and also on the paradoxical fall into the historicism by an avowedly anti-historicist philosopher. The only significant exception is the strong affinity of Giovanni Cerri with Popper, which however does not …
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"We Shall Have to Make the Best of It:" The Conversion of Dennis Sciama
… Sciama, in a stark contrast to the naive falsificationism usually presented as a virtue of the "scientific method," went through a several-year period of attempting to "save" the model from hostile data. However, Sciama abandoned the model in 1966 due to increasingly reliable data relating …