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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', '17: Epistle to Titus' and 'The Logic of Scientific Discovery'

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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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

3856	Good theories have empirical content, explain a lot, and are not falsified [Popper, by Newton-Smith]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

7779	There is no such thing as induction [Popper, by Magee]

14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction

3860	Science cannot be shown to be rational if induction is rejected [Newton-Smith on Popper]