Theorems in pure mathematics can be proved right but the models used in applied mathematics, natural and social science, as well as in engineering, can at most be “not yet proved wrong”-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Theorems in pure mathematics can be proved right but the models used in applied mathematics, natural and social science, as well as in engineering, can at most be “not yet proved wrong”

Published:2016-11 Issue:11 Volume:53 Page:1440-1442
ISSN:0008-4077
Container-title:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Can. J. Earth Sci.

Author:

Burke Kevin¹¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5007, USA; School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Crosby Lecturer, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Link

http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2016-0129

Reference3 articles.

1. Magee, B. 1973. Karl Popper. Edited by F. Kermode. Fontana Modern Masters, Viking Press.

2. Popper, K. 1934. Logik der Forschung. Verlag der Julius Sprenger. [In German].

3. Popper, K. 1959. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge [First English edition].

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