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“Erkenntnis”, Vol. V, page 252 ff.
see R. v. Mises “Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und ihre Anwendung” Leipzig-Wien 1931, page 370 ff.
see H. Geiringer, Jounnal of Unified Science. Bd. VIII, 1939.
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See in the same order of ideas: “it is however advisable to avoid all notions of the existence of a third problem that of applicability in addition to the two fundamental problems of observation and theory. A special theory, i.e. a system of propositions, procofs etc. dealing with the question of how theory can be applied to experimental results existing independently of the theory of the subject itself is inconceivable.” R. v. Mises, Probability, Statistics and Truth. Translated by J. Neyman. London 1939, page 125. And: “...Instead of the falsification of a theory we shall speak of its concussion (Erschütterung). We consider concussion corresponding to confirmation and we endeavour to explain each of them in its way in every single case as explicitly as possible.” O. Neurath, “Erkenntnis”, Vol. V, page 357.
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Geiringer, H. “Falsification” and theory of errors. Synthese 5, 86–89 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02273512
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