Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... deductive system T ' , which will be called an interpreted theory . Its vocabulary VT will be the sum of VT and VB . What was noted in connection with ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) may now be restated thus : If an interpreted theory T ...
... deductive system T ' , which will be called an interpreted theory . Its vocabulary VT will be the sum of VT and VB . What was noted in connection with ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) may now be restated thus : If an interpreted theory T ...
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... deductive - statistical explanations , or D - S explanations . They involve the deduction of a statement in the form of a statistical law from an explanans that contains indispensably at least one law or theoretical principle of ...
... deductive - statistical explanations , or D - S explanations . They involve the deduction of a statement in the form of a statistical law from an explanans that contains indispensably at least one law or theoretical principle of ...
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... deductive explanation possesses the same kind of relativity , since whether a proposed D - N or D - S account is ... deductive explanations . Hence , these are not subject to any such restrictive condition , and the notion of a potential ...
... deductive explanation possesses the same kind of relativity , since whether a proposed D - N or D - S account is ... deductive explanations . Hence , these are not subject to any such restrictive condition , and the notion of a potential ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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