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Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of “inductive” reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks.

References:

• History of the Inductive Sciences by William Whewell (1837)
• Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale by Claude Bernard (Paris, 1865)
• Karl Popper
• Karl Pearson (math)