The Popper-Carnap Controversy

by Alex C. Michalos

1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error. The error was presumably committed by J. M. Keynes, H. Reichen- bach and R. Carnap. 2 It was Popper's intention then, to expose the error and to introduce an explicatum for the prescientific concept of degree of confirmation. A few months later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024751276
• ISBN13: 9789024751273
• Release Date: July 1971
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"