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Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 2019 Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) advises reasoners to infer exactly one explanation. This uniqueness claim apparently binds us when it comes to “conjunctive explanations,” distinct explanations that are nonetheless explanatorily better together ...
Schupbach, Jonah N., Schupbach, Jonah
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Inference to the Best Explanation: The Limits of Truth-Conduciveness.
, 2011 The dissertation analyses inference to the best explanation (IBE). Firstly, the thesis explicates the concept of IBE, it analyzes what does the concept of explanatory power stands for.
Mackonis, Adolfas,
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Inference to the best explanation in science
, 2008 This thesis defends inference to the best explanation (IBE) by giving an account of explanatory 'loveliness' in science. I begin by presenting IBE in generic form and showing how it out-performs rival accounts of induction.
Walker, David
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The reliability of inference to the best explanation.
, 2001 I analyze inference to the best explanation (IBE), and defend it against three problems. First, it seems we have no reason to think that the explanatory virtues exemplified by a theory count as evidence that the theory is true.
Ruhmkorff, Samuel Gahan
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Metaphysical Explanation and the Inference to the Best Explanation (BA thesis) [PDF]
Inference to the Best Explanation, roughly put, appeals to the explanatory power of a theory or hypothesis (relative to some data set) as constituting epistemic justification for it.
Coimbra, Daniel
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This paper seeks to explain the conflicting views of Lipton and Salmon on the merits of the abductive method of inference known as Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE).
peter beaufort Seddon
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Sappho’s Alleged Proof of Aesthetic Relativity
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2010 Fr.16 employs an argument for the relativity of aesthetic evaluations that is most fruitfully interpreted as an example of "Inference to the Best Explanation," a non-deductive form of reasoning of which many ancient and modern arguments for relativism ...
Harold Zellner
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, 2011 https://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/cf3b933d-f7cf-417c-84c3-46aae74b791a/thumb/128.jpgAn explanation is an answer to a why-question that provides relevant information to the question's asker.
Fielding, David
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The relation of Peirce's abduction to inference to the best explanation [PDF]
Peirce’s pragmatic maxim is closely related to his conception of abduction. The acquisition of the actual effect required by the method of scientific reasoning expressed by Peirce’s maxim must be accomplished by resorting to abductive
Yi, Jiang
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Diffusion-augmented YOLO26-Swin cascaded framework with hybrid SHAP-CAM for autonomous power grid inspection. [PDF]
Auton Intell SystStefenon SF +4 more
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