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A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
Carl Gustav Hempel
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Carl Gustav Hempel
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 8
Died: 1997
Died: November 9
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
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