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Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation

Theoria, 2009
The paper deals with the relation between abduction and inference to the best explanation (IBE). A heuristic and a normative interpretation of IBE are distinguished. Besides, two different normative interpretations —those vindicated by I.
Valeriano Iranzo
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Inference to the Best Explanation: The Case of Potential Energy

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2020
It has been claimed that kinetic energy is an objective physical quantity whilst at the same time maintaining that potential energy is not. However, by making use of the method of ‘inference to the best explanation’, it may be readily concluded that ...
Peter J. Riggs
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Defending subjective inflation: an inference to the best explanation. [PDF]

Neurosci Conscious, 2020
Abstract In a recent opinion piece, Abid (2019) criticizes the hypothesis that subjective inflation may partly account for apparent phenomenological richness across the visual field and outside the focus of attention. In response, we address three main issues.
Knotts JD, Michel M, Odegaard B.
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Critical Thinking: The ARDESOS-DIAPROVE Program in Dialogue with the Inference to the Best and Only Explanation

Journal of Intelligence, 2023
In our daily lives, we are often faced with the need to explain various phenomena, but we do not always select the most accurate explanation. For example, let us consider a “toxic” relationship with physical and psychological abuse, where one of the ...
Miguel H. Guamanga, Fabián A. González, Carlos Saiz, Silvia F. Rivas   +3 more
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Inference to the Best Explanation

Zygon, 1997
The common role of research programs in science and religion is now widely accepted. The next step in the methodology debate is to specify more concretely the shared standards for adequate explanations.
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Inference to the best neuroscientific explanation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Neuroscientists routinely use reverse inference (RI) to draw conclusions about cognitive processes from neural activation data. However, despite its widespread use, the methodological status of RI is a matter of ongoing controversy, with some critics arguing that it should be rejected wholesale on the grounds that it instantiates a deductively invalid ...
Igor Douven, Davide Coraci
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Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Can atheistic explanations scientifically explain the world and humans? Can theistic deductive arguments provide a rational explanation of the world? Many philosophers of contemporary religion believe that deductive arguments for the existence of God are
Abbas Yazdani
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Inference to the Best Explanation

The Reasoner, 2008
Alan Baker
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Application of inference to the best explanation in law interpretation [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامه حقوق اسلامی, 2020
Interpretation is the method of law. It has sub methods. Any of these sub methods have basis and use technique that coordinate with its basis. One of the sub methods at law is the systematic method of interpretation.
Mohammad Salehi Mazandarani, Payam Mohammadi Mirazizi   +1 more
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Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism.
Amir Motesharei, Mostafa Taqavi
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