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August 9, 1925 – April 22, 2001
Renowned for his work on the nature of scientific explanation and worked on confirmation theory. -
Confirmation Theory
He sought to resolve the enduring conflict between the logical empiricist or logical positivism ( that the only meaningful philosophical problems are those that can be solved by logical analysis) view, as against the Kuhnian historical perspective, whereby theory choice and comparison are troubled by incommensurability, the inability of scientists to even effectively communicate and compare theories across differing paradigms.