文档介绍：The Logic of Scientific
Discovery
‘One of the most important philosophical works of our
century.’
Richard Wollheim, The Observer
‘Wonderfully exhilarating.’
Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
Karl
Popper
The Logic of Scientific
Discovery
London and New York
Logik der Forschung first published 1935
by Verlag von Julius Springer, Vienna, Austria
First English edition published 1959
by Hutchinson & Co.
First published by Routledge 1992
First published in Routledge Classics 2002
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TO MY WIFE
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CONTENTS
Translators’ Note xii
Preface to the First Edition, 1934 xv
Preface to the First English Edition, 1959 xviii
PART I Introduction to the Logic of Science
1 A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems 3
1 The Problem of Induction
2 Elimination of Psychologism
3 Deductive Testing of Theories
4 The Problem of Demarcation
5 Experience as a Method
6 Falsifiability