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Verifiability

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Mr MacKinnon’s paper1 raises a number of important questions. In the short time that is at my disposal I can only focus on two or three of them, and this merely in a sketchy way.

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  1. D. M. MacKinnon, Proc. Aris. Soc., Suppl. vol. XIX (1945), pp. 101–18.

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  2. See Karl Popper, Logik der Forschung, Vienna, 1935; translated as The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London, 1959.

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  3. See, for instance, J. V. Neumann, Mathematische Grundlagen der Quanten-mechanik, Berlin, 1932; translated as Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton, 1955.

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© 1968 The Literary Executors of F. Waismann, and R. Harré

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Waismann, F. (1968). Verifiability. In: Harré, R. (eds) How I See Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00102-6_2

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