Empiricism according to GEORGE J. POSNER, KENNETH A. STRIKE, PETER W. HEWSON, and WILLIAM A. GERTZOG
- “Most varieties of empiricism tend to see the grounds for accepting a given scientific theory as the capacity of the theory to generate confirmed predictions” (Posner et al., 1982, p. 213)
- “More recent views, however, suggest that an adequate view of the grounds for accepting a new theory must take into account the character of the problems generated by its predecessor and the nature of the new theory's competition” (Posner et al., 1982, p. 213)