• World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence, by Stephen C. Pepper (1942), presents four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems)...
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  • the University of California at Berkeley. He may be best known for World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was also a respected authority on aesthetics...
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    There are several hypotheses about real-world events that could have inspired Plato's fictional story of Atlantis, told in the Timaeus and Critias. While...
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    proposed instead that science is based on the procedure of conjecturing hypotheses, deductively calculating consequences, and then empirically attempting...
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  • Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) The...
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    systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited...
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    of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori...
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    dispositional tools we use to produce knowledge about the world are themselves produced by this world – both evinces the vital necessity of implementing reflexivity...
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    Sarcasm Simile Synecdoche Analogy Tertium comparationis War as metaphor World Hypotheses "In sum, there are now numerous results from comprehension-oriented...
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  • World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence. In this work, Pepper noted that philosophical systems tend to cluster around a few distinct "world hypotheses"...
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