Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 1Confirmation, Induction, and Rational Belief -- Conceptions of Cognitive Significance -- Structure and Function of Scientific Concepts and Theories -- Scientific Explanation. |
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... lawlike if it has all the characteristics of a general law , with the possible exception of truth . Hence , every law is a lawlike sentence , but not conversely ... lawlike sentences ? First of Studies in the Logic of Explanation [ 265 ]
... lawlike if it has all the characteristics of a general law , with the possible exception of truth . Hence , every law is a lawlike sentence , but not conversely ... lawlike sentences ? First of Studies in the Logic of Explanation [ 265 ]
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... laws , and similarly fundamen- tal lawlike sentences , should satisfy a certain condition of nonlimitation of scope . It would be excessive , however , to deny the status of fundamental lawlike sentence to all statements which , in ...
... laws , and similarly fundamen- tal lawlike sentences , should satisfy a certain condition of nonlimitation of scope . It would be excessive , however , to deny the status of fundamental lawlike sentence to all statements which , in ...
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... sentences constituting its explanans need not be true . In a potential D - N explanation , therefore , L1 , L2 , ... , L , will be what Goodman has called lawlike sentences , i.e. sentences that are like laws except for possibly being ...
... sentences constituting its explanans need not be true . In a potential D - N explanation , therefore , L1 , L2 , ... , L , will be what Goodman has called lawlike sentences , i.e. sentences that are like laws except for possibly being ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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