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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karl Popper]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 06 09:14:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If it was 400 pages shorter, I'd give it 5 stars.  <br/><br/>Popper makes his point quickly and emphatically on the merits of deductive reasoning versus inductive and its use in scientific research.  Unfortunately, he continues to give examples to reiterate his point.  Reading the first 50 pages i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1713088">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 19 19:36:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I define the empirical content of a statement p as the class of its potential falsifiers.  The logical content is defined, with the help of the concept of derivability, as the class of all non-tautological statements which are derivable from the statement in question.  So the logical content o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3296645">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a great work of scientific philosophy although it is a bit outdated and therefore doesn't readily apply to the modern scientific approaches in data-rich fields like genomics or cosmology.<br/>It is extremely interesting to read together with Kuhn's &quot;The Structure of Scientific Revolution&quot;...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a brilliant book, although the English translation could have been better.  Many fascinating ideas that will be useful even (or perhaps I should say especially) to social scientists.  Someone above commented that Popper over-reiterates his criticism of inductive logic - but one has to remember ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41407476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I volunteered to read this book in my PhD Doctoral Seminar because I thought my German language abilities would help me further understand Karl Popper.<br/><br/>It didn't.<br/><br/>Here's my review:<br/><br/>Grappling with underlying ideas of how science is “discovered” and the underlying ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33558963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where the nightmare of relativistic thinking begins; excellent in theory but just like knowldge of a spherical Earth it makes sense in la la land only. Let's face it, for all intensive  purposes in daily practise we treat the earth as flat; to do otherwise would be ridiculous no?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Our method of research is not to defend them, in order to prove how right we were. On the contrary, we try to overthrow them&quot; dikutip dari <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33558963.">review ini</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12486573">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not an easy-to-read book. I've read Popper's 'Open society and its Enemies' and that was a lot easier going. However, this is Popper's definitive work on the difference between science and non-science, and how to tell them apart. When you hear scientists refer to Popper they are referring to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12486573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Popper's epistemological conjectures are nasty.  This book provided the intellectual justification for my pursuit of a Ph.D in the social sciences]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book for those interested in the Philosophy of Science but it gets a bit difficult with al of the equations.  But as an admirer of science it is essential to understanding how hypotheses are formed and revised.  It also is incredibly generous in its updating of maxims concerning the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13062293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say... It is one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century... That alone should give it 5 stars... Although a tough read...it is well worth it...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gem of a work about the nature of science.]]></body>
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