Induction versus Popper: Substance versus semantics

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 543-548

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction; Inference; Logic; Popper; Probability; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TECHNIQUE;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031664378     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/27.4.543     Document Type: Review

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