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CONTENTS
Translators' Note 6
Preface to the First Edition, 1934 13
Preface to the English Edition, 1958 15
PART I
Introduction to the Logic of Science
Chapter I. A SURVEY OF SOME FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS 27
1. The Problem of Induction.
2. Elimination of Psychologism.
3. Deductive Testing of Theories.
4. The Problem of Demarcation.
5. Experience as a Method.
6. Falsifiability as a Criterion of Demarcation.
7. The Problem of the 'Empirical Basis'.
8. Scientific Objectivity and Subjective Conviction.
Chapter II. ON THE PROBLEM OF A THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD 49
9. Why Methodological Decisions are Indispensable.
10. The Naturalistic Approach to the Theory of Method.
11. Methodological Rules as Conventions.
PART II
Some Structural Components of a Theory of Experience
Chapter III. THEORIES 59
12. Causality, Explanation, and the Deduction of Predictions.
13. Strict and Numerical Universality.
14. Universal Concepts and Individual Concepts.
15. Strictly Universal and Existential Statements.
16. Theoretical Systems.
17. Some Possibilities of Interpreting a System of Axioms.
18. Levels of Universality. The Modus Tollens.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Contributors: Karl R. Popper - author. Publisher: Basic Books. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1959. Page Number: 7.
    
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