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, 2017 I develop and argue for a kind of externalism about certain kinds of non-doxastic attitudes that I call policy externalism. Policy externalism about a given type of attitude is the view that all the reasonable policies for having attitudes of that type ...
Drucker, Daniel
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Confirmation by Explanation: A Bayesian Justification of IBE [PDF]
, 2017 We provide a novel Bayesian justification of inference to the best explanation (IBE). More specifically, we present conditions under which explanatory considerations can provide a significant confirmatory boost for hypotheses that provide the best ...
Eva, Benjamin +2 more
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Inference to the Only Explanation: The Case of the Cretaceous/Paleogene Extinction Controversies
PhilosophiesIn the sciences of the deep past, it is taken for granted that the hypothesis that offers the best explanation is the best confirmed. I examine in detail the debate over the K/Pg mass extinctions that began in 1980 with the publication of the paper by ...
Keith M. Parsons
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Assertion and Argument in Xenophanes
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento OcidentalIt 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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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 +1 more
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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 +1 more
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Justifying Inference to the Best Explanation as a Practical Meta-Syllogism on Dialectical Structures [PDF]
, 2011 This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a *practical* argument insofar as accepting the best explanation as true can be shown to further a specific aim.
Betz, Gregor
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Abductive two-dimensionalism: a new route to the a priori identification of necessary truths [PDF]
, 2020 Epistemic two-dimensional semantics, advocated by Chalmers and Jackson, among others, aims to restore the link between necessity and a priority seemingly broken by Kripke, by showing how armchair access to semantic intensions provides a basis for ...
Jessica, Wilson, Stephen, Biggs
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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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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 +12 more
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