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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... construed as a dyadic relation between an object or an ordered set of objects , representing the evidence , and a sentence , representing the hypothesis . This means that confirmation was conceived of as a semantical relation obtaining ...
... construed as a dyadic relation between an object or an ordered set of objects , representing the evidence , and a sentence , representing the hypothesis . This means that confirmation was conceived of as a semantical relation obtaining ...
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... construed as concerning the possibility of expressing the meaning of the term ' v ' by reference to the meanings of the mem- bers of V. If this conception is adopted , then naturally the information needed to answer the question of ...
... construed as concerning the possibility of expressing the meaning of the term ' v ' by reference to the meanings of the mem- bers of V. If this conception is adopted , then naturally the information needed to answer the question of ...
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... construed as authorizing the transition from any sentence of the form ' i is a metal ' to the sentence ' there is a temperature T such that at any lower temperature , but at no higher one , i is solid at atmospheric pressure ' ; for the ...
... construed as authorizing the transition from any sentence of the form ' i is a metal ' to the sentence ' there is a temperature T such that at any lower temperature , but at no higher one , i is solid at atmospheric pressure ' ; for the ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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