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... categorical , verifiable forecasts . How can we test the soundness of this First Thesis ? The only way is by measuring it against some typical instances , and in doing so we soon hit on a First Counter - Argument . The thesis defines ...
... categorical , verifiable forecasts . How can we test the soundness of this First Thesis ? The only way is by measuring it against some typical instances , and in doing so we soon hit on a First Counter - Argument . The thesis defines ...
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... categorical , dated assertion about the occurrence of a particular sort of event - whether in the past , present , or future . ' Yet , why ' ( it may be asked ) ' should all predictions be categorical and dated ? No doubt a scientist is ...
... categorical , dated assertion about the occurrence of a particular sort of event - whether in the past , present , or future . ' Yet , why ' ( it may be asked ) ' should all predictions be categorical and dated ? No doubt a scientist is ...
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... categorical predictions are relatively unimportant as a test of the explanatory power of a scientific theory , since we may discover how to forecast by simple trial - and - error , without any theoretical understanding of the processes ...
... categorical predictions are relatively unimportant as a test of the explanatory power of a scientific theory , since we may discover how to forecast by simple trial - and - error , without any theoretical understanding of the processes ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
Copyright | |
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