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Colin Howson (1945 – 5 January 2020) was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty on 1 July 2008.[1] Previously, he was Professor of Logic at the London School of Economics. He completed a PhD on the philosophy of probability in 1981. In the late 1960s he had been a research assistant of Imre Lakatos at LSE. He died on Sunday 5 January 2020.
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1945
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5 Ocak 2020
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Much criticized as scientifically useless in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and never seriously employed, the Novum Organum was nevertheless the forerunner of a long line of attempts to specify a working logic for inductive arguments.
It is a commonplace that our scientific knowledge far exceeds the observational basis on which it is grounded. It seems equally commonplace that a good part of it is securely grounded on careful observation.
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