Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... sentence may contain free variables , so that generality is always expressed by universal quantification . For later ... singular , or alternatively , a molecular sentence if S con- tains no variables . A singular sentence which contains ...
... sentence may contain free variables , so that generality is always expressed by universal quantification . For later ... singular , or alternatively , a molecular sentence if S con- tains no variables . A singular sentence which contains ...
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... singular sentences of maximum nonuniversal content in L , which means that every singular sentence in L which has a maximal sentence as a consequence is either equivalent with that maximal sentence or formally false in L. As we saw ...
... singular sentences of maximum nonuniversal content in L , which means that every singular sentence in L which has a maximal sentence as a consequence is either equivalent with that maximal sentence or formally false in L. As we saw ...
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... singular sentence U whose maximal normal form contains ly maximal sentences , the range measure ( 9.4 ) r1 ( U ) = lv / m which obviously is defined in strict analogy to the content measure g1 for singular sentences as introduced in ...
... singular sentence U whose maximal normal form contains ly maximal sentences , the range measure ( 9.4 ) r1 ( U ) = lv / m which obviously is defined in strict analogy to the content measure g1 for singular sentences as introduced in ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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