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    Henry Mehlberg

    contemporaryLogical Empiricism

    1904 – 1978

    Henry Mehlberg (1904–1978) was a Polish-American philosopher of science associated with the logical empiricist tradition. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of time, scientific epistemology, and the foundations of physics, and is best known for his rigorous treatment of time's arrow and the reach of scientific knowledge.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored The Reach of Science (1958), a systematic account of the scope and limits of scientific knowledge

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    Developed an influential analysis of the direction of time and the physical basis of time's arrow

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    Contributed to the epistemology of probability and inductive inference in scientific contexts

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    Posthumously published Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory, extending his analysis to quantum mechanics

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    An epistemicist must assign some small probability to each hypothesis that identifies a particular numerical threshold for oldness.

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