Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... confirmation , our study has a bearing also on the question of the acceptance of hypotheses which have themselves the form of observation reports . The conception of confirmation as a relation between sentences analogous to that of ...
... confirmation , our study has a bearing also on the question of the acceptance of hypotheses which have themselves the form of observation reports . The conception of confirmation as a relation between sentences analogous to that of ...
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... confirmation which satisfies the more severe formal conditions represented by ( 8.1 ) , ( 8.2 ) , and ( 8.3 ) together . The fulfilment of these requirements , which may be regarded as general laws of the logic of confirmation , is of ...
... confirmation which satisfies the more severe formal conditions represented by ( 8.1 ) , ( 8.2 ) , and ( 8.3 ) together . The fulfilment of these requirements , which may be regarded as general laws of the logic of confirmation , is of ...
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... confirmation of a hypothesis H by an observation report B. Perhaps the problem of formulating adequate criteria of qualitative confirmation had best be tackled , after all , by means of the quantitative concept of confirmation . This ...
... confirmation of a hypothesis H by an observation report B. Perhaps the problem of formulating adequate criteria of qualitative confirmation had best be tackled , after all , by means of the quantitative concept of confirmation . This ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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