Popper’s Measure of Corroboration and P

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (4):axs029 (2013)
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This article shows that Popper’s measure of corroboration is inapplicable if, as Popper argued, the logical probability of synthetic universal statements is zero relative to any evidence that we might possess. It goes on to show that Popper’s definition of degree of testability, in terms of degree of logical content, suffers from a similar problem. 1 The Corroboration Function and P(h|b) 2 Degrees of Testability and P(h|b)

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Darrell P. Rowbottom
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