As mentioned in Chapter 1, both Popper and the empiricists advocate the use of the Deductive Model as a model of the explanation of particular occurrences. But the empiricists go one step further and suggest its employment as a model of the explanation of laws by higher-level theories.
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(2007). The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Scientific Progress. In: Scientific Progress. Synthese Library, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6354-1_4
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