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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... probabilistic inference eschew the notion of purely logical probabilities and qualify predictions of the kind here considered as sound only on the further assumption that the selection of indi- vidual cases from the total population has ...
... probabilistic inference eschew the notion of purely logical probabilities and qualify predictions of the kind here considered as sound only on the further assumption that the selection of indi- vidual cases from the total population has ...
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... probabilistic principles of the kinetic theory of heat , Einstein derived a law to the effect that the mean displacement of such particles is proportional to the square root of the elapsed time.15 But the theoretical definition of the ...
... probabilistic principles of the kinetic theory of heat , Einstein derived a law to the effect that the mean displacement of such particles is proportional to the square root of the elapsed time.15 But the theoretical definition of the ...
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... probabilistic explanation or pre- diction will have to be made in the light of all the relevant information at our ... probabilistic explanation ? Surely we should not insist that the explanans must contain all and only the empirical ...
... probabilistic explanation or pre- diction will have to be made in the light of all the relevant information at our ... probabilistic explanation ? Surely we should not insist that the explanans must contain all and only the empirical ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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