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In The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper introduced and defended the view that the acceptability of a scientific hypothesis is directly proportional to its logical improbability.
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Rudolf Carnap, “Truth and Confirmation,” Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl and W. Sellars (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1949), p. 124.
Rudolf Carnap, “The Two Concepts of Probability,” Readings in the Philosophy of Science, ed. H. Feigl and M. Brodbeck (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1953), p. 455. This is a reprint of the article which originally appeared in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Vol. V (1945).
Rudolf Carnap, “Statistical and Inductive Probability,” The Structure of Scientific Thought, ed. E.H. Madden (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960), p. 272. The article originally appeared as a pamphlet published by the Galois Institute of Mathematics and Art, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1955.
William Kneale, Probability and Induction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949), p. 229. The quotation is in Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, p. 219.
Alex C. Michalos, “Positivism versus the hermeneutic-dialectic school,” Theoria, XXXV (1969), pp. 267–278.
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Michalos, A.C. (1971). Acceptability and Logical Improbability. In: The Popper-Carnap Controversy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3048-9_2
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