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Anne-Kathrin Reulecke (Hg) Fälschungen Frankfurt 2006

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Induction/MedawarVsInduction: (following Popper):
1. There is no objective starting point.
2. The process of discovery is confused with that of the proof.
3. It is not possible to certainly arrive at a generalization that contains more information than the sum of the particular sentences on which it is based.
>Discoveries, >Proof, Science, >Generalization.
Medawar pro Popper: (logic of research(1)): hypothetical-deductive method. Trial and Error. This is to give an account of the process of discovery.
Solution/Medawar: style of the traditional literary narrative: premonitions, false starting points, rejected hypotheses, emotional aspects, coincidences. It is possible to use literary language in the sense of a "true narrative".
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VsMedawar: that is naive!
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The social use of word and writing invariably introduces fiction as a communicative artifice.
>Fiction.


1. Karl Popper: Logik der Forschung. 11. Auflage. Tübingen 2005.

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