On comparison of theories by their contents

Studia Logica 48 (4):617 - 622 (1989)
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Popper's definition of verisimilitude was criticized for its paradoxical consequences in the case of false theories. The aim of this paper is to show that paradoxes disappear if the falsity content of a theory is defined with help of dCn or Cn –1.

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Jan Wolenski
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Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach.Karl Raimund Popper - 1972 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Realism and the aim of science.Karl R. Popper - 1988 - New York: Routledge. Edited by William Warren Bartley.
Likeness to Truth.Graham Oddie - 1986 - Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel.
Popper’s qualitative theory of verisimilitude.David Miller - 1974 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25 (2):166-177.
On Popper's definitions of verisimilitude.Pavel Tichý - 1974 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25 (2):155-160.

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