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Since the beginning of my inquiries, Popper’s lesson fascinated me and I wondered why the propensity theory still raises debates and issues. I asked myself why Popper—in substance—missed his target in the probability theory whereas this giant of human thought achieved extraordinary results in other fields of research.
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Rocchi, P. (2014). Criticism on the Philosophical Pollution. In: Janus-Faced Probability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04861-1_5
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