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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'The Logic of Scientific Discovery' and 'Confessions'

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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 2. Demonstration

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There cannot be a science of accidentals, but only of general truths [Aristotle]

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Demonstrations about particulars must be about everything of that type [Aristotle]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Give Nobel Prizes for really good refutations? [Gorham on Popper]

7780	Falsification is the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science [Popper, by Magee]

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We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them [Lipton on Popper]

6794	If falsification requires logical inconsistency, then probabilistic statements can't be falsified [Bird on Popper]

6795	When Popper gets in difficulties, he quietly uses induction to help out [Bird on Popper]