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Editorial notes: The source manuscript is from KPS Box 12, Folder 10. It is marked “A General Theory of Inference by K.R. Popper”, and consists of 54 handwritten pages, numbered 1 to 52, and an additional sheet numbered 39A and 39B. There is a mark on page 39 with an instruction where to insert pages 39A/B. In Footnote 2 Popper mentions that he has not yet published anything concerning the problem of characterising valid inferences in general apart from “Why are the Calculuses of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality” (Popper, 1946c). This places the manuscript in the second half of 1946, probably before the meeting with Bernays in December 1946. The article could also be seen as a precursor to “Logic without Assumptions” (Popper, 1947b; this volume, Chap. 2) where Popper also discusses different notions of translation in the context of Tarski’s concept of logical consequence.
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Popper, K.R. (2022). A General Theory of Inference. In: Binder, D., Piecha, T., Schroeder-Heister, P. (eds) The Logical Writings of Karl Popper. Trends in Logic, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94926-6_15
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