Sentence examples for observation statement from inspiring English sources

Not only must there exist some possible observation statement which could falsify the hypothesis or theory, were it observed, (Popper called these the hypothesis' potential falsifiers) it is crucial to the Popperian scientific method that such falsifications be sincerely attempted on a regular basis.

So in the second edition Ayer amended the principle to read: a statement is directly verifiable if it is either an observation statement or is such that an observation statement is derivable from it in conjunction with another observation statement (or observation statements), such derivability not being possible from the conjoined observation statement(s) alone.

The increase of the time observation statement in the M file and run, the simulation model, and related parameter settings are shown in Fig. 5.

Strong verification required that the truth of a proposition be conclusively ascertainable; weak verification required only that an observation statement be deducible from the proposition together with other, auxiliary, propositions, provided that the observation statement was not deducible from these auxiliaries alone.

This rapidly proved defective: any proposition P conjoined with 'if P then O', where 'O' is an observation statement, will yield O, without this being deducible from 'if P then O' alone.

Hence, if one accepts the observation of a white raven here and now, then that negation of the negated observation statement contradicts the universal proposition in logical space, and falsification occurs" [ 24].

Take O1, O2, and O3 as logically independent observation statements, and S any statement whatsoever.

Nelson uses Quine's arguments against the independently foundational status of observation statements as the basis for what she calls a feminist empiricism.

Such a comparison makes sense at least if the observation statements entailed by \(T_{1}\) are a proper subset of those entailed by \(T_{2}\).

Assertions about God or The Absolute were meaningless by this criterion, since they are not observation statements or deducible from them.

Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya realists emphasize the "concept-laden" nature of at least the type of perception that is epistemically foundational for observation statements containing basic sensory predicates.