Selected Papers on Epistemology and Physics

Conditioned by Measuring Procedures.- 6. The Definition of Probability Functions by Repeated Application of the Empirical-Fictitious Method.- X. The Methological Symmetry of Verification and Falsification.- 1. Like Names for Unlike Concepts.- 2. Empirical Propositions about Finitely and Infinitely.- Many Cases.- 3. Wittgenstein's Verification Thesis.- 4. Propositions about Finitely and Infinitely Many Cases. The Methodologies of Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Popper.- 5. 'Asymmetrical' Falsification Theories.- 6. Criteria of Scientific Progress.- 7. 'Complete' and 'Progressive Partial' Testability.- XI. Three Sources of Knowledge.- 1. The Triadic Method.- 2. Data of Consciousnes-Logico-Mathematical Constructions - Methods of Empirical Content.- 3. Three concepts of 'Truth' and 'Probability'.- XII. The Triadic Method.- 1. Elements of Linguistic Representation and the Triadic Method.- 2. The Triadic Analysis of 'Truth'.- 3. The Triadic Analysis of 'Probability'.- 4. The Triadic Analysis of 'Number'.- 5. The Triadic Analysis of 'Philosophic Expressions'.- XIII. The Method of Fictitious Predicates.- 1. Scientific and Speculative Philosophy.- 2. 'Operative' and 'Fictitious' Existence.- I: Predicates as Descriptive Concept-Forms.- 1. The Existence of Logico-Linguistic Forms.- 2. Dispositional Concepts as Fictitious Predicates.- 3. Characterization of Phenomena by Fictitious Quantities.- II: Predicates as Quantities Characterizing States.- 4. Characterizing by Infinite Values of Quantities.- 5. Characterizing Phenomena in Uncertainly Ranges by Means of Fictitious Values ('Values of Measurement').- 6. Logical Analysis of the Concepts 'Motion' and 'Rest'.- 7. Logical Analysis of the Relativity Principle.- 8. The Clock Paradox.- 9. Conditions, under which the Relativity Principle Does not Hold.- 10. Domains of Uncertainty as a Presupposition for Applying the New Method.- III: Predicates as Probability Quantities.- 11. Analytic-Deductive Inferences. Inferences from Conjunctive Classes of Propositions.- 12. Inferences from Disjunctive Classes of Propositions. Probability Inferences.- 13. Systems of Probability Metric and Their Order.- 14. The Characterization of States by Conjunctive and Disjunctive Classes of Propositions.- 15. Presuppositions of Measurement in Classical and Relativistic Physics.- 16. Description by Ranges of Quantities.- 17. Definition of Probability Quantities by Means of Functions.- 18. Descriptions by Means of Probability and Metrical Quantities.- 19. Uncertainty Domains as Prerequisite for the Method of Fictitious Predicates.- 20. The Definition of Probability Functions by Means of Operators.- 21. Empirical and Fictitious Existence of Predicates.- 22. Theories of Measurement as a Presupposition of Exact-Continuous and of Probability Description.- 23. The Epistemological Conditions for Applying the Method of Fictitious Predicates.- 24. The Probability Field.- 25. Probability Description and Indeterminacy of Phenomena.- 26. The Logical Meaning of Quantisation. First and Second Quantisation.- 27. The Quantisation of Electromagnetic Fields.- IV. Empirical-Fictitious Knowledge.- 28. Active and Fictitious Causality.- 29. Greatest Possible and Least Possible Physical Constants.- 30. The New Form of Knowledge.- 31. The Matrix Field and the Probability Wave Field.- 32. Probability Description in Biology.- Index of Names.