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... explicit general definition of the probability ( or degree of confirmation ) of a hypothesis H with respect to a body of evidence E ; they all limit themselves essentially to the construction of an uninterpreted postulational system of ...
... explicit general definition of the probability ( or degree of confirmation ) of a hypothesis H with respect to a body of evidence E ; they all limit themselves essentially to the construction of an uninterpreted postulational system of ...
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... explicit definitions of the latter should be achieved , this method would be unavailing for theoretical terms . But the arguments do not show - and are not claimed to show - that theoretical terms can in no way be explicitly defined in ...
... explicit definitions of the latter should be achieved , this method would be unavailing for theoretical terms . But the arguments do not show - and are not claimed to show - that theoretical terms can in no way be explicitly defined in ...
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... explicit definitions for all theoretical terms , by chains of reduction sentences , by biconditional translation statements in the sense of Campbell's dictionary , and by generalized reduction sentences of the form ( 8.4 ) ; but of ...
... explicit definitions for all theoretical terms , by chains of reduction sentences , by biconditional translation statements in the sense of Campbell's dictionary , and by generalized reduction sentences of the form ( 8.4 ) ; but of ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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