Translators' Note
Preface to the First Edition, 1934
Preface to the First English Edition, 1959
Pt. I Introduction to the Logic of Science
1 A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems 3
2 On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method 27
Pt. II Some Structural Components of a Theory of Experience
3 Theories 37
4 Falsifiability 57
5 The Problem of the Empirical Basis 74
6 Degrees of Testability 95
7 Simplicity 121
8 Probability 133
9 Some Observations on Quantum Theory 209
10 Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests 248
App. i Definition of the Dimension of a Theory 283
App. ii The General Calculus of Frequency in Finite Classes 286
App. iii Derivation of the First Form of the Binomial Formula 290
App. iv A Method of Constructing Models of Random Sequences 293
App. v Examination of an Objection. The Two-Slit Experiment 297
App. vi Concerning a Non-Predictive Procedure of Measuring 301
App. vii Remarks Concerning an Imaginary Experiment 305
New Appendices
i Two Notes on Induction and Demarcation, 1933-1934 312
ii A Note on Probability, 1938 319
iii On the Heuristic Use of the Classical Definition of Probability 325
iv The Formal Theory of Probability 329
v Derivations in the Formal Theory of Probability 356
vi On Objective Disorder or Randomness 369
vii Zero Probability and the Fine-Structure of Probability and of Content 374
viii Content, Simplicity, and Dimension 392
ix Corroboration, the Weight of Evidence, and Statistical Tests 402
x Universals, Dispositions, and Natural or Physical Necessity 440
xi On the Use and Misuse of Imaginary Experiments, Especially in Quantum Theory 464
xii The Experiment of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen. A Letter from Albert Einstein, 1935 481
Indices
Name Index 489
Subject Index 494