ABSTRACT
Sabotaging logical expressions is not only a device which is for the authors an essential auxiliary to that of neutralizing success-words. It has a most important and distinctive effect of its own, directly on the literary fabric of their philosophy of science, and indirectly in giving that philosophy plausibility. One way to sabotage a logical expression, and the way which is most common in the authors, is to embed a logical statement in a context which can be broadly described as epistemic. Misconditionalization can be used to assist the sabotage of logical expressions by epistemic embedding, and in our authors it is in fact sometimes so used. Sabotage by epistemic embedding is in fact more usually of general logical statements than of singular ones. The use of epistemic embedding to sabotage a logical expression is less common in Karl Popper than in any of the other authors.
