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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... STATISTICAL SYLLOGISMS One type of inductive inference that leads into inconsistencies is represented by the so - called statistical syllogism and its variants . 1. Written during my tenure , on a United States Government Fellowship ...
... STATISTICAL SYLLOGISMS One type of inductive inference that leads into inconsistencies is represented by the so - called statistical syllogism and its variants . 1. Written during my tenure , on a United States Government Fellowship ...
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... statistical syllogisms , or briefly as statistical syllogisms . Now it is readily seen that all broadly statistical syllogisms lead into inconsistencies because the individual case a which the conclusion assigns to the class G ( or : to ...
... statistical syllogisms , or briefly as statistical syllogisms . Now it is readily seen that all broadly statistical syllogisms lead into inconsistencies because the individual case a which the conclusion assigns to the class G ( or : to ...
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... statistical argument as having the form of broadly statistical syllogisms is untenable ; for those syllogisms generate inductive inconsistencies in the following sense : For an argu- ment with true premises that has the form of a ...
... statistical argument as having the form of broadly statistical syllogisms is untenable ; for those syllogisms generate inductive inconsistencies in the following sense : For an argu- ment with true premises that has the form of a ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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