Farewell to certitude: Einstein's novelty on induction and deduction, fallibilism

Journal for General Philosophy of Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-37

  Adam, Avshalom M ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Certitude; Conventionalism; Deduction; Einstein; Fallibilism; Induction; Popper

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012928877     PISSN: 09254560     EISSN: 15728587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008380527490     Document Type: Review

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