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, 2018 It is widely thought in philosophy and elsewhere that parsimony is a theoretical virtue in that if T1 is more parsimonious than T2, then T1 is preferable to T2, other things being equal. This thesis admits of many distinct precisifications.
Roche, William
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Theory formation by abduction : a case study based on the chemical revolution [PDF]
, 1990 Abduction is the process of constructing explanations. This chapter suggests that automated abduction is a key to advancing beyond the "routine theory revision" methods developed in early AI research towards automated reasoning systems capable of "world ...
Morris, Steven +2 more
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Abductive Reasoning: Challenges Ahead
Theoria, 2009 The purpose of this piece is to provide a critical analysis on some key aspects of abduction, as conceived by several researchers through my book Abductive Reasoning. These contributions raise fundamental questions concerning the conjectural character of
Atocha Aliseda
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Presume It Not: True Causes in the Search for the Basis of Heredity [PDF]
, 2017 Kyle Stanford has recently given substance to the problem of unconceived alternatives, which challenges the reliability of inference to the best explanation (IBE) in remote domains of nature.
Novick, Aaron, Scholl, Raphael
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Testing the 'new economic geography': a comparative analysis based on EU regional data [PDF]
This paper evaluates 'new economic geography' theory by comparing it with a competing non-nested model derived from urban economics. Using bootstrap inference and the J-test, the paper shows that while NEG theory is supported by the data, it needs to be ...
Bernard Fingleton
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Kevin McCain and Ted Poston’s Best Explanations [PDF]
, 2020 In this critical notice, I focus my attention on the chapters that deal with the explanationist response to ...
Cabrera, Frank
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Learning by Arguing About Evidence and Explanations [PDF]
, 2008 Collaborative learning with cases characteristically involves discussing and developing shared explanations. We investigated the argumentation scheme which learners use in constructing shared explanations over evidence.
Asgari-Targhi, M, Dowell, J
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Metaphysical and Conceptual Grounding [PDF]
, 2020 Recently, many philosophers have claimed that the world has an ordered, hierarchical structure, where entities at lower ontological levels are said to metaphysically ground entities at higher ontological levels.
Smithson, Robert
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Jewish Survival, Divine Supervision, and the Existence of God [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper, I discuss an argument for the existence of God known as “The Argument from the Survival of the Jews.” This argument has the form of an Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE).
Mizrahi, Moti
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Comment on David Kaspar's Intuitionism [PDF]
, 2015 In his book Intuitionism, David Kaspar is after the truth. That is to say, on his view, “philosophy is the search for the whole truth” (p. 7). Intuitionism, then, “reflects that standpoint” (p. 7).
Mizrahi, Moti
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