World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence, by Stephen C. Pepper (1942), presents four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems)...

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...

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...

Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) The...

systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited...

World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence. In this work, Pepper noted that philosophical systems tend to cluster around a few distinct "world hypotheses"...

dispositional tools we use to produce knowledge about the world are themselves produced by this world – both evinces the vital necessity of implementing reflexivity...

Sarcasm Simile Synecdoche Analogy Tertium comparationis War as metaphor World Hypotheses "In sum, there are now numerous results from comprehension-oriented...

idea that hypotheses arise from data unsullied by prior expectations," the inadequacy of qualitative research for testing cause-effect hypotheses, and the...

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...

of the humanities. Joseph Carroll asserts that we live in a changing world, a world where "cultural capital" is replaced with scientific literacy, and in...

backwards in time onto Newtonian dynamics, we can formulate the following two hypotheses: HR: the term "mass" in Newtonian theory denotes relativistic mass. Hp:...

perception, which involves the usage of the senses to learn about the external world. Introspection allows people to learn about their internal mental states...

also sources that mention the same or similar names in other parts of the World (most notably in the Asiatic Sarmatia in the Caucasus). Attempts of various...

Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) The...

samples; all have null hypotheses. There are also at least four goals of null hypotheses for significance tests: Technical null hypotheses are used to verify...

interpretation of sensory experiences, giving rise to an understanding of the world. A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is derived from experience. It...

and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies...

liberate people from all forms of oppression and actively works to create a world in accordance with human needs (usually called "critical theory", without...

absolute truth to relative truth in the way that mathematics is related to the world around it, that was a result of this paradigm shift. Non-Euclidean geometry...

adaptation ... functionalism strongly emphasises the pre-eminence of the social world over its individual parts (i.e. its constituent actors, human subjects)...

of scientific practice. Nor does critical rationalism, for which all hypotheses are groundless, none being better than any others except that some resist...

question "How sure do we need to be that our beliefs correspond to the actual world?" Different theories of justification require different conditions before...

problems that are more consistent with known hypotheses rather than attempt to refute those hypotheses. Often, in experiments, subjects will ask questions...

Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) The...

Balkans and in Croatia, like those of the Serbs and Vlachs, but the upcoming world wars and social events also influenced the Croatian ethnogenesis. The mention...

Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung (Monographs on the Scientific World-Conception), Einheitswissenschaft (Unified Science) and the journal Erkenntnis...

"truthlikeness". The intuitive idea behind verisimilitude is that the assertions or hypotheses of scientific theories can be objectively measured with respect to the...

(quantitative) hypothesis and testing working hypothesis (qualitative). For formal hypotheses the concepts are represented empirically (or operationalized) as numeric...

background assumptions (also called auxiliary assumptions or auxiliary hypotheses); thus, unambiguous scientific falsifications are also impossible. Thomas...