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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... premises , whose conclusion is logically incompatible with that of the first argument . This is true also of an ... premises to a very strong assertion of a given conclusion can generally be matched by a rival one , governed by the same ...
... premises , whose conclusion is logically incompatible with that of the first argument . This is true also of an ... premises to a very strong assertion of a given conclusion can generally be matched by a rival one , governed by the same ...
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... premises , the conclusion , though true , is not an a priori truth : hence , in arguments of the form ( 3.1 ) the premises then by no means warrant the conclusion . The schema ( 3.1 ) could be turned into a sound form of argument by ...
... premises , the conclusion , though true , is not an a priori truth : hence , in arguments of the form ( 3.1 ) the premises then by no means warrant the conclusion . The schema ( 3.1 ) could be turned into a sound form of argument by ...
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... premises ; i.e. , their truth will guaran- tee its truth - which means nothing more than that ' a is G ' is a logical conse- quence of those premises . Analogously , to present our statistical explanation in the manner of schema ( 3b ) ...
... premises ; i.e. , their truth will guaran- tee its truth - which means nothing more than that ' a is G ' is a logical conse- quence of those premises . Analogously , to present our statistical explanation in the manner of schema ( 3b ) ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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