Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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Page 92
... rules of two kinds : First , rules of con- firmation , which would specify what kind of evidence is confirmatory , what kind disconfirmatory for a given hypothesis . Perhaps they would also determine a numerical degree of evidential ...
... rules of two kinds : First , rules of con- firmation , which would specify what kind of evidence is confirmatory , what kind disconfirmatory for a given hypothesis . Perhaps they would also determine a numerical degree of evidential ...
Page 357
... rules connecting singular statements still faces another , more serious difficulty : the formulation of law statements as inference rules proves difficult , if not impossible , and the resulting system of rules is awkward , to say the ...
... rules connecting singular statements still faces another , more serious difficulty : the formulation of law statements as inference rules proves difficult , if not impossible , and the resulting system of rules is awkward , to say the ...
Page 358
... rule , authorizing all and only those transitions among singular statements which can be effected by using only purely logical rules of inference and by treating the laws and theoretical principles " as if " they were statements capable ...
... rule , authorizing all and only those transitions among singular statements which can be effected by using only purely logical rules of inference and by treating the laws and theoretical principles " as if " they were statements capable ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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