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On the role of explanatory and systematic power in scientific reasoning [PDF]
, 2015 The paper investigates measures of explanatory power and how to define the inference schema “Inference to the Best Explanation”. It argues that these measures can also be used to quantify the systematic power of a hypothesis and the inference schema ...
Brössel, Peter
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Naturalizing Logic: How Knowledge of Mechanisms Enhances Inductive Inference
Philosophies, 2021 This paper naturalizes inductive inference by showing how scientific knowledge of real mechanisms provides large benefits to it. I show how knowledge about mechanisms contributes to generalization, inference to the best explanation, causal inference, and
Paul Thagard
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Explanation, confirmation, and Hempel's paradox [PDF]
, 2017 Hempel’s Converse Consequence Condition (CCC), Entailment Condition (EC), and Special Consequence Condition (SCC) have some prima facie plausibility when taken individually.
Roche, William
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Inference to the best action and its basis in clinical expertise
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Can contemporary cognitive science explain clinical expertise? We argue that the answer could be “no.” In support of this, we provide an analysis of two of the most essential expressions of clinical expertise in nursing and medicine, the ability to run a
Mark Fedyk +3 more
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Is Explanatoriness a Guide to Confirmation? A Reply to Climenhaga [PDF]
, 2017 We argued that explanatoriness is evidentially irrelevant in the following sense: Let H be a hypothesis, O an observation, and E the proposition that H would explain O if H and O were true. Then our claim is that Pr = Pr.
Roche, William, Sober, Elliott
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Induction, deduction and inference to the best explanation
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 Starting from the concept of abduction coined by Pierce, Harman, Josephson and Psillos have recently claimed that inference to the best explanation is the scientific method par excellence and favour a realist conception of scientific theories.
Rodolfo Gaeta
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Methods of Inference and Shaken Baby Syndrome
Philosophy of Medicine, 2023 Exploring the early development of an area of medical literature can inform contemporary medical debates. Different methods of inference include deduction, induction, abduction, and inference to the best explanation.
Nicholas Binney
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Informal Logic, 2009 The argument by analogy for other minds is customarily rejected as a weak inference because the argument is based on a single instance. The current paper argues that this objection fundamentally misunderstands the inferential structure of analogies and ...
Bryan Benham
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Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 2021 Simple random sampling resolutions of the raven paradox relevantly diverge from scientific practice. We develop a stratified random sampling model, yielding a better fit and apparently rehabilitating simple random sampling as a legitimate idealization.
Ward, Barry
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Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]
, 2015 Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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