Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences: Proceedings of the Conference for Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences, Warsaw, June 17–21, 1974

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Some Problems of Formal Methodology of Science....Pages 9-18
Approximate Truth and Truthlikeness....Pages 19-42
A Multiple Sentential Logic for Empirical Theories....Pages 43-56
An Axiomatic Foundation for the Logic of Inductive Generalization....Pages 57-81
A Two-Dimensional Continuum of a Priori Probability Distributions on Constituents....Pages 82-92
Inductive Logic and Theoretical Concepts....Pages 93-112
A Pragmatic Approach to the Formalization of Empirical Theories....Pages 113-135
Uncertainty, Probability and Empirical Knowledge....Pages 136-142
The Concept of Empirical Data....Pages 143-157
Interpretation of Theoretical Terms: In Defence of an Empiricist Dogma....Pages 158-169
Definability Problems in the Methodology of Science....Pages 170-187
Laws, Identities, and Reduction....Pages 188-198
On Logical Analysis of Methods....Pages 199-205
Axiomatization in Expected Utility Theory....Pages 206-219
A Logical Model for Game-Like Situations and the Transformation of Game-Like Situations....Pages 220-228
Indeterminate Probabilities....Pages 229-246
Theoretical Laws....Pages 247-267
Causality, Ontology, and Subsumptive Explanation....Pages 268-286
On the Introduction of Intensions into Set Theory....Pages 287-296
Types of Information and their Role in the Methodology of Science....Pages 297-308
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Classification and Ranking Models in the Discrete Data Analysis (A Survey)....Pages 309-317
What Have Physicists Learned From Experience About Inductive Inference?....Pages 318-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Verisimilitude: Popper, Miller, and Hattiangadi....Pages 335-352
On a General Scheme of Causal Analysis....Pages 353-367
Logic of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 368-370
On Possibilities and Limits of the Application of Inductive Methods....Pages 371-379
Correspondence Principle and the Idealization....Pages 380-386
Pragmatic Meaning and Truth....Pages 387-393
Semantic Complementarity in Quantitative Empirical Sciences....Pages 394-398
Marx’s Concept of Law of Science....Pages 399-416
The Impossibility Theorem for Universal Theory of Prediction....Pages 417-430
Scientific Knowledge-Formation....Pages 431-438
The Methodology of Behavioral Theory Construction: Nomological-Deductive and Axiomatic Aspects of Formalized Theory....Pages 439-449
Intertheory Relations on the Formal and Semantical Level....Pages 450-457