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Abductive, presumptive and plausible arguments
Informal Logic, 2001 Current practice in logic increasingly accords recognition to abductive, presumptive or plausible arguments, in addition to deductive and inductive arguments. But there is uncertainty about what these terms exactly mean, what the differences between them
Douglas Walton
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Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation? [PDF]
, 2021 Yunus Prasetya
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Descubrimiento, Justificación y Inferencia a la Mejor Explicación
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008 In this paper I claim that the bias to pass from the acknowledgement of the explanatory virtues of a hypothesis to the belief that it is true or approximate to the truth is so strong that scientific realists can hardly elude that temptation.
Rodolfo Gaeta
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THEORIZING RELIGION AND QUESTIONING THE FUTURE OF ISLAM AND SCIENCE
Zygon, 2020 Will there be any joint future for science and Islam? Although such questions have recently received considerable attention, more basic questions are often ignored. This article aims at addressing some of those more basic questions through exploring the
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Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics
Culturas Cientificas, 2018 This article claims the validity of abductive reasoning, or inference to the best explanation, as a practice of discovery of explanatory scientific hypotheses.
Andrés Rivadulla
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GERIAUSIO PAAIŠKINIMO IŠVEDIMAS. TARP DEDUKCIJOS, INDUKCIJOS IR ABDUKCIJOS
Problemos, 2009 Geriausio paaiškinimo išvedimas (GPI) išskiriamas kaip pagrindinė mokslo hipotezes ir teorijas atrandanti ir pagrindžianti samprotavimo forma. Straipsnyje tiriamas GPI ir jo santykis su pagrindinėmis samprotavimo rūšimis: dedukcija, indukcija ir ...
Adolfas Mackonis
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Investigating Semmelweis's research through the Lipton's IBE and Bird's Holmesian inference [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهSemmelweis's research method in identifying the cause of puerperal fever in mothers has attracted the attention of philosophers of science for several decades.
Ahmadreza Nourmohammadi, Mahdi Momeninia
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Eyewitness evaluation through inference to the best explanation [PDF]
, 2022 Hylke Jellema
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PALEY'S iPOD: THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF THE DESIGN ARGUMENT WITHIN NATURAL THEOLOGY
Zygon, 2010 The argument from design stands as one of the most intuitively compelling arguments for the existence of a divine Creator. Yet, for many scientists and philosophers, Hume's critique and Darwin's theory of natural selection have definitely undermined the
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AR KELIAS Į TIESĄ GALĖTŲ BŪTI GRĮSTAS GERIAUSIO PAAIŠKINIMO IŠVEDIMU?
Problemos, 2012 Is Inference to the Best Explanation Truth Conducive?
Jonas Dagys
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