|Abstract||The idea of verisimilitude is implicit in the
writings of Albert Einstein ever since 1905, when he declared
the distribution of field energy according to Maxwell's theory
an approximation to that according to quantum-radiation theory,
and Newtonian kinetic energy an approximation to his
relativistic mass-energy. All his life Einstein presented new
ideas as yielding older established ones as special cases and
first approximations. The news has reached the philosophical
community via the writings of Sir Karl Popper half-a-century
after Einstein's trailblazing conception — first in his epoch-
making "Note on Berkeley as a Precursor to Mach" and then in his
classic "Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge" (both reissued
in his Conjectures and Refutations, 1963).| |Keywords||No
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