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The heuristic conception of inference to the best explanation [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2017 An influential suggestion about the relationship between Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation (IBE) holds that IBE functions as a heuristic to approximate Bayesian reasoning. While this view promises to unify Bayesianism and IBE in a very attractive manner, important elements of the view have not yet been spelled out in detail.
Finnur Dellsén
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Critical Thinking: The ARDESOS-DIAPROVE Program in Dialogue with the Inference to the Best and Only Explanation [PDF]
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 +3 more
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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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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 Made Incoherent [PDF]
Journal of Philosophy, 2017 Defenders of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) claim that explanatory factors should play an important role in empirical inference. They disagree, however, about how exactly to formulate this role. In particular, they disagree about whether to formulate IBE as an inference rule for full beliefs or for degrees of belief, and, if it is formulated ...
Nevin Climenhaga
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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.
Philip Clayton
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Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation
Theoria, 2008 Bayesianism and Inference to the best explanation (IBE) are two different models of inference. Recently there has been some debate about the possibility of “bayesianizing” IBE.
Valeriano IRANZO
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“Inference to the Best Explanation” as a Methodology of Social Ontology
Социология власти, 2023 The article discusses the problem of the naturalistic methodology of social ontology. Following Katherine Hawley's (2018) analysis, the author considers three approaches: conceptual analysis, the ameliorative (or normative) approach, and inference to the
V. S. Shevchenko
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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 +1 more
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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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