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Statistical relational learning with soft quantifiers [PDF]
, 2016 Quantification in statistical relational learning (SRL) is either existential or universal, however humans might be more inclined to express knowledge using soft quantifiers, such as ``most'' and ``a few''.
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Hypothetico-deductivism: incomplete but not hopeless [PDF]
, 2005 Alleged counter-examples deployed in Park (2004) against the account of selective hypothetico deductive confirmation offered in Gemes (1998) are shown to be ineffective.
Gemes, Ken
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica, 2019 The paper deals with the issue of abduction. First of all, the paper presents the development of the concept of abduction in the work of Charles S. Peirce, who was the first in modern history to examine abduction and suggested its two partially different
Katarzyna Žák Krzyžanková
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Abductively Robust Inference [PDF]
, 2017 Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) is widely criticized for being an unreliable form of ampliative inference – partly because the explanatory hypotheses we have considered at a given time may all be false, and partly because there is an asymmetry ...
Dellsén, Finnur
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Naïve Realism and the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception [PDF]
, 2018 Perceptual experience has representational content. My argument for this claim is an inference to the best explanation. The explanandum is cognitive penetration. In cognitive penetration, perceptual experiences are either causally influenced, or else are
Cavedon-Taylor, Dan
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Internalism and Entitlement to Rules and Methods [PDF]
, 2020 In our thought, we employ rules of inference and belief-forming methods more generally. For instance, we (plausibly) employ deductive rules such as Modus Ponens, ampliative rules such as Inference to the Best Explanation, and perceptual methods that tell
Schechter, Joshua
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Putting inference to the best explanation into context
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 It is often assumed that Inference to the Best Explanation, or 'IBE', belongs to the context of justification. But several recent developments might lead one to ask whether it is more appropriate to situate it in the context of pursuit. Peircean abduction, which has been designated as an immediate precursor to IBE, is, according to recent scholarship ...
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Inference to the Best Explanation and the Screening-Off Challenge [PDF]
, 2019 We argue in Roche and Sober (2013) that explanatoriness is evidentially irrelevant in that Pr(H | O&EXPL) = Pr(H | O), where H is a hypothesis, O is an observation, and EXPL is the proposition that if H and O were true, then H would explain O. This is a “
Roche, William, Sober, Elliott
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Applied Epistemology and Argumentation in Epidemiology
Informal Logic, 2008 The general goal is to encourage informal logicians and those interested in applied epistemology to look at epidemiology as a paradigmatic science crucially dependant on argumentation to justify its claims. Three specific goals are: 1.
Mark Battersby
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Theism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
Ars Disputandi, 2002 AbstractIn this paper the author critically examines the explanatory role of theistic belief. Although talk of religious beliefs as explanations is commonly employed in the context of religious epistemology, it may also serve to simply characterise one of the functions of religious views of life.
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