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Falsification or Confirmation: From Logic to Psychology [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Corroboration or confirmation is a prominent philosophical debate of the 20th century. Many philosophers have been involved in this debate most notably the proponents of confirmation led by Hempel and its most powerful criticism by the falsificationists led by Popper.
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History and presentation of the Cavendish experiment in textbooks in the 20th century [PDF]
arXivThe experiment performed by Henry Cavendish to measure the density of the earth, is in numerous textbooks described as a measurement of the universal gravitational constant, G, even if we know that this was not true. In this paper, a study on how common this "myth" is based on the checklist developed by Leite on a total of 84 textbooks.
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A Context for Paris-Harrington Combinatorial Principle [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 A historical review of the problem of incompleteness in Mathematics since the 20th century is made. The Combinatorial Principle of Paris-Harrington is studied and the way in which it can be codified in the language of Arithmetic.
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A Century of Science: Globalization of Scientific Collaborations, Citations, and Innovations [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Progress in science has advanced the development of human society across history, with dramatic revolutions shaped by information theory, genetic cloning, and artificial intelligence, among the many scientific achievements produced in the 20th century. However, the way that science advances itself is much less well-understood.
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Evolution of the problem "search for life in the Universe" from some examples [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Drake formula, it appears interesting to briefly review the history of Astrobiology from the origins up to the epoch of the Drake formula. After recalling the main steps of this history during Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, we point out some little known or unknown studies during the ...
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