POPPER'S QUALITATIVE THEORY OF VERISIMILITUDE

DOI10.1093/bjps/25.2.166zbMath0377.02007OpenAlexW2060843449MaRDI QIDQ4156748

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Publication date: 1974

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/25.2.166

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) General logic (03B99)

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