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Reasons for non-confirmation of explored reserves at the Charmitan gold deposit
Errors arising in the exploration of ore deposits can be divided into two groups: errors in determining specific quantitative characteristics of mineralization (average thickness, grade, density) and errors in identifying the conditions of occurrence ...
Avazbek Kh. Okhunov +3 more
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The Adoption Problem and Relativism about Logic
The adoption problem was originally raised by Saul Kripke. It is supposed to present a difficulty for Willard Van Orman Quine’s view that statements of logical law are empirically confirmable.
Daniel Boyd
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On Publication Strategies. Another Advice to a Beginning Scientist
Productivity in science has increased and it is becoming more important for scientists to publish, to publish frequently, and to accumulate citations to their work. However, the peer review system may not only promote and advance but also hinder, prevent,
Ruben Coronel
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Channels’ Confirmation and Predictions’ Confirmation: From the Medical Test to the Raven Paradox [PDF]
After long arguments between positivism and falsificationism, the verification of universal hypotheses was replaced with the confirmation of uncertain major premises. Unfortunately, Hemple proposed the Raven Paradox.
Lu, Chenguang
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I will show that there is a type of analogical reasoning that instantiates a pattern of reasoning in confirmation theory that is considered at best paradoxical and at worst fatal to the entire syntactical approach to confirmation and explanation. However,
David Botting
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Publishing confirming and non-confirming data [PDF]
This editorial introduces the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel on F1000Research, which has been created to encourage and facilitate open and transparent publication and discussion of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research.
Alberts, Bruce, Kamb, Alexander
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The Promise and Challenges of Determining Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone in Milk
Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) is produced in large quantities and widely used in a number of countries worldwide to stimulate milk production in dairy animals.
Axel Raux +6 more
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The Problem of Measure Sensitivity Redux [PDF]
Fitelson (1999) demonstrates that the validity of various arguments within Bayesian confirmation theory depends on which confirmation measure is adopted. The present paper adds to the results set out in Fitelson (1999), expanding on them in two principal
Brössel, Peter
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Self-Confirming Equilibrium [PDF]
The authors introduce a new solution concept for games in extensive form -- the self-confirming equilibrium -- which captures the features of the outcomes of a plausible learning process. In an earlier study, \textit{D. Fudenberg} and \textit{D. M. Kreps} [`A theory of learning, experimentation and equilibrium in games', mimeo, Stanford (1988)] had ...
Fudenberg, Drew, Levine, David K
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How Explanation Guides Confirmation [PDF]
Where E is the proposition that [If H and O were true, H would explain O], William Roche and Elliot Sober have argued that P(H|O&E) = P(H|O). In this paper I argue that not only is this equality not generally true, it is false in the very kinds of cases ...
Climenhaga, Nevin
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