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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Introduction: On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance | |
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Conjectures | |
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Science: Conjectures and Refutations | |
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Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science | |
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The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science | |
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Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge | |
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The Science of Galileo and Its Most Recent Betrayal | |
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The Issue at Stake | |
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The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences | |
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The Second View: Theories as Instruments | |
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Criticism of the Instrumentalist View | |
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The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality | |
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Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition | |
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Back to the Presocratics | |
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Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change | |
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A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein | |
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Kant's Critique and Cosmology | |
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Kant and the Enlightenment | |
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Kant's Newtonian Cosmology | |
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The Critique and the Cosmological Problem | |
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Space and Time | |
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Kant's Copernican Revolution | |
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The Doctrine of Autonomy | |
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On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics | |
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Kant and the Logic of Experience | |
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The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories | |
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Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? | |
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Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge | |
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The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems | |
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The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts | |
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Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability | |
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Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth | |
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Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge | |
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A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement | |
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Refutations | |
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The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics | |
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Introduction | |
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My Own View of the Problem | |
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Carnap's First Theory of Meaninglessness | |
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Carnap and the Language of Science | |
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Testability and Meaning | |
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Probability and Induction | |
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Language and the Body-Mind Problem | |
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Introduction | |
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Four Major Functions of Language | |
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A Group of Theses | |
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The Machine Argument | |
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The Causal Theory of Naming | |
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Interaction | |
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Conclusion | |
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A Note on the Body-Mind Problem | |
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Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language | |
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What is Dialectic? | |
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Dialectic Explained | |
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Hegelian Dialectic | |
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Dialectic After Hegel | |
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Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences | |
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Public Opinion and Liberal Principles | |
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The Myth of Public Opinion | |
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The Dangers of Public Opinion | |
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Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses | |
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The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion | |
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The Forms of Public Opinion | |
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Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity | |
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A Short List of Political Illustrations | |
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Summary | |
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Utopia and Violence | |
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The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View | |
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Humanism and Reason | |
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Addenda: Some Technical Notes | |
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Empirical Content | |
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Probability and the Severity of Tests | |
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Verisimilitude | |
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Numerical Examples | |
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Artificial vs. Formalized Languages | |
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A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964) | |
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Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968) | |
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Further Remarks on the Presocratics, especially on Parmenides (1968) | |
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The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? (1968) | |
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An Argument, due to Mark Twain, against Naive Empiricism (1989) | |
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Index of Mottoes | |
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Index of Names | |
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Index of Subjects | |