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(1981) Science and hypothesis, Dordrecht, Springer.

Peirce and the trivialization of the self-corrective thesis

Larry Laudan

pp. 226-251

The aims of this chapter are two-fold: first and primarily, to identify and to summarize the development of an important but hitherto unnoticed tradition in 19th-century methodological thought, and secondly, to suggest that certain aspects of the history of this tradition give us a new perspective from which to assess certain strains in contemporary philosophy of science. In Part I below, I attempt to define this tradition, to document its existence, and to note some features of its evolution. In Part II, I briefly indicate the manner in which this history may shed new light on some recent trends in inductive logic.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7288-0_14

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Laudan, L. (1981). Peirce and the trivialization of the self-corrective thesis, in Science and hypothesis, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 226-251.

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