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Inference to the Best Explanation in Uncertain Evidential Situations [PDF]
, 2017 It has recently been argued that a non-Bayesian probabilistic version of inference to the best explanation (IBE*) has a number of advantages over Bayesian conditionalization (Douven [2013]; Douven and Wenmackers [2017]).
Pellert, Max, Trpin, Borut
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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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Social science as a guide to social metaphysics? [PDF]
, 2018 Work on this paper was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.If we are sympathetic to the project of naturalising metaphysics, how should we approach the metaphysics of the social world? What role can the social sciences play
Hawley, Katherine Jane
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The Crux of Crucial Experiments: Duhem's Problems and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 2017 Going back at least to Duhem, there is a tradition of thinking that crucial experiments are impossible in science. I analyse Duhem's arguments and show that they are based on the excessively strong assumption that only deductive reasoning is permissible ...
Weber, Marcel
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Soft quantification in statistical relational learning [PDF]
, 2017 We present a new statistical relational learning (SRL) framework that supports reasoning with soft quantifiers, such as "most" and "a few." We define the syntax and the semantics of this language, which we call , and present a most probable explanation ...
A Charnes +19 more
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Metaphysical Explanation and the Inference to the Best Explanation (BA thesis) [PDF]
Inference to the Best Explanation, roughly put, appeals to the explanatory power of a theory or hypothesis (relative to some data set) as constituting epistemic justification for it.
Coimbra, Daniel
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How do medical researchers make causal inferences? [PDF]
, 2019 Bradford Hill (1965) highlighted nine aspects of the complex evidential situation a medical researcher faces when determining whether a causal relation exists between a disease and various conditions associated with it.
Dammann, Olaf +2 more
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Peculiaridades da argumentação sobre fatos no campo do direito
Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2016 Resumo: A argumentação jurídica é frequentemente caracterizada como uma espécie particularmente formal, engessada ou “institucionalg de argumentação. Autores que concordam com essa caracterização da argumentação jurídica costumam ter em mente argumentos ...
Fábio Shecaira, Noel Struchiner
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On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation. [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 Pettigrew R.
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