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Many years ago — in fact, in 1954 — I wrote a paper, ‘The Aim of Science’, which was first published in English and in German in December 1957.1 This paper contained, among other things, a refutation of the view, held by such great men as Isaac Newton and Max Born, that Newton’s theory can be derived from Kepler’s laws, either by an inductive or by a deductive argument.
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First published in Ratio I, No. 1 (1957). A revised version is now Chapter 5 of my Objective Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 5th imprint 1979), pp. 191–205. The present restatement of the argument against induction implicit in that paper was written in April 1980.
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Popper, K.R. (1985). Against Induction: One of Many Arguments. In: Andersson, G. (eds) Rationality in Science and Politics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6254-5_13
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