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In 19541 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error. The error was presumably committed by J. M. Keynes, H. Reichen bach and R. Carnap.2 It was Popper’s intention then, to expose the error and to introduce an explicatum for the prescientific concept of degree of confirmation.
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Karl Popper, “Degree of Confirmation,” B.J.P.S., V (1954), pp. 143–149.
I. Lakatos, “Changes in the problem of inductive logic,” The problem of Inductive Logic, ed. I. Lakatos (Amsterdam: North Holland Pub. Co., 1968), pp. 315–417.
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Michalos, A.C. (1971). Introduction. In: The Popper-Carnap Controversy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3048-9_1
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