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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... construal incorrectly suggests , establish the conclusions that Petersen almost certainly is a Roman Catholic , and that he almost certainly is not : rather , the arguments show that relative to one set of premises , the statement ...
... construal incorrectly suggests , establish the conclusions that Petersen almost certainly is a Roman Catholic , and that he almost certainly is not : rather , the arguments show that relative to one set of premises , the statement ...
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... construal here broadly summarized is not , of course , susceptible to strict " proof " ; its soundness has to be judged by the light it can shed on the rationale and force of explanatory accounts offered in different branches of ...
... construal here broadly summarized is not , of course , susceptible to strict " proof " ; its soundness has to be judged by the light it can shed on the rationale and force of explanatory accounts offered in different branches of ...
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... construal here put forward has to be justified by appropriate arguments . In our case , these have to show that the proposed construal does justice to such accounts as are generally agreed to be instances of scientific explanation , and ...
... construal here put forward has to be justified by appropriate arguments . In our case , these have to show that the proposed construal does justice to such accounts as are generally agreed to be instances of scientific explanation , and ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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