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Assertion and Argument in Xenophanes

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
It is a commonplace in our histories of Greek philosophy that the first thinker to fashion deductive arguments was Parmenides of Elea. One corollary of this view is that Ionian philosophers before Parmenides provided no arguments in support of their ...
James H. Lesher
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A Comparative Study on Experience from the View Point of Avicenna and The Inference of the Best Explanation

حکمت سینوی, 2019
The inference of the best explanation is a type of non-deductive inference that was coined by Charles Sanders Peirce in his work on the logic of science.
Reza Mohammad Alizadeh, Seyyed Mahmoud Moosavi   +1 more
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The Inference to the Best Explanation as heuristic to address historical episodes in Science Education through explanatory controversies

Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2020
This paper presents the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) to approach aspects of Nature of Science through historical explanatory controversies.
Renato Felix Rodrigues, Alexsandro Pereira de Pereira   +1 more
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Arguments from Developmental Order

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In this article, I investigate a special type of argument regarding the role of development in theorising about psychological processes and cognitive capacities.
Richard eStöckle-Schobel
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How do Explanations Justify?

Informal Logic
: The paper presents an extended scheme for the inference to the best explanation (IBE). The scheme precisely treats the epistemic modifiers (“hypothetically,” “plausibly,” “presumably”) of the inference, acknowledges its contrastive nature, clarifies ...
Petar Bodlović, Marcin Lewiński
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Abductive, presumptive and plausible arguments

Informal Logic, 2001
Current practice in logic increasingly accords recognition to abductive, presumptive or plausible arguments, in addition to deductive and inductive arguments. But there is uncertainty about what these terms exactly mean, what the differences between them
Douglas Walton
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Automatic inference model construction for computer-aided diagnosis of lung nodule: Explanation adequacy, inference accuracy, and experts' knowledge. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
We aimed to describe the development of an inference model for computer-aided diagnosis of lung nodules that could provide valid reasoning for any inferences, thereby improving the interpretability and performance of the system. An automatic construction
Masami Kawagishi, Takeshi Kubo, Ryo Sakamoto, Masahiro Yakami, Koji Fujimoto, Gakuto Aoyama, Yutaka Emoto, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Koji Sakai, Yoshio Iizuka, Mizuho Nishio, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kaori Togashi   +12 more
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Scientific explanation models, inference to the best explanation and the DNA’s double helix history

, 2023
O presente artigo objetiva realizar um estudo de caso que aplica o modelo de inferência da melhor explicação (inference to the best explanation, IBE) de Peter Lipton ao episódio histórico da construção do modelo de dupla-hélice do DNA, no século XX ...
Sardi, Gabriel Chiarotti
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Skepticism, Externalism, and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

, 2008
This paper focuses on a combination of the antiskeptical strategies offered by semantic externalism and the inference to the best explanation. I argue that the most difficult problems of the two strategies can be solved, if the strategies are combined ...
Briesen, Jochen
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Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism [PDF]

, 2003
The aim of this paper is to rebut two major criticisms of the No-Miracles Argument for Realism. The first comes from Musgrave (1988). The second comes from Colin Howson (2000).
Psillos, Stathis
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