Popper y la explicación cientifica1
In his famous Logik der Forschung (1934) Popper indicates that a causal expla- nation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction at least one natural law plus certain singular statements, the socalled initials conditions. According to this, I will...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
| Published: |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2005-12-01
|
| Series: | Revista de Filosofia |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/10377 |
| Summary: | In his famous Logik der Forschung (1934) Popper indicates that a causal expla- nation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction at least one natural law plus certain singular statements, the socalled initials conditions. According to this, I will claim that Popper should be considered as the founder and not simply an important precursor of the “deductivenomological” or “covering-law” model developed later by Hempel and Oppenheim in his classic article written in 1948 entitled “Studies in the Logic of Explanation”. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 0034-8244 1988-284X |