PROBLEMS WITH THE FRAMEWORK OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM

• Inductivist Positions
  • The simplistic inductivist
  • The probabilistic inductivist
  • The sophisticated probabilistic inductivist
• Problems with Induction
  • Inductive arguments are not erosion proof
  • Hume's refutation of induction
  • Ambiguity of the Constituent components of the Inductive framework
  • The theory dependence of observation
    • Visual experience are not determined by the images on the retina
    • Observation statements presuppose theory
• Falsificationism
  • The Falsificationist's Thesis
  • Falsificationism as an escape from the Inductive inference
  • Falsifiability as the criterion for theories
    • Examples of hypotheses that are falsifiable
    • Examples of hypotheses that are not falsifiable
  • The Magnitude of Falsifiability: Knowledge, Information, Clarity and Precision
    • Falsifiability and Information Content
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