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"Inference to the Best Explanation, Cleaned Up and Made Respectable" [PDF]

, 2017
Despite decades of focused philosophical investigation, Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) still lacks a precise articulation and compelling defense. The primary reason for this is that it is not at all clear what it means for a hypothesis to be the
Schupbach, Jonah N.
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Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Feminist Bank Tellers

, 2001
Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism have both been proposed as descriptions of the way that people make inferences. This paper argues that one result from cognitive psychology, the "feminist bank teller" experiment, suggests that people use
Chart, David
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Quantifying empirical support for theories of consciousness: a tentative methodological framework

Frontiers in Psychology
Understanding consciousness is central to understanding human nature. We have competing theories of consciousness. In interdisciplinary consciousness studies most believe that consciousness can be naturalized (i.e., consciousness depends in some ...
Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup
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Inference to the Best Explanation versus Bayes's Rule in a Social Setting [PDF]

, 2017
This article compares inference to the best explanation with Bayes's rule in a social setting, specifically, in the context of a variant of the Hegselmann-Krause model in which agents not only update their belief states on the basis of evidence they ...
Wenmackers, Sylvia, Douven, Igor
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Causal Inference as Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

We argue that a modified version of Mill’s method of agreement can strongly confirm causal generalizations. This mode of causal inference implicates the explanatory virtues of mechanism, analogy, consilience, and simplicity, and we identify it as a ...
Ward, Barry
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Inference to the Best Explanation in Large Language Models [PDF]

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have found success in real-world applications, their underlying explanatory process is still poorly understood. This paper proposes IBE-Eval, a framework inspired by philosophical accounts on Inference to the Best ...
Dalal, Dhairya, Valentino, Marco, Freitas, Andre; id_orcid, Buitelaar, Paul   +3 more
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Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation be Friends?

, 2010
Bas van Fraassen argues that inference to the best explanation (IBE) is a probabilistically incoherent rule (1989). Anyone following IBE is open to being Dutch booked.
Stewart, Rush Tyler
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How communicative trust shapes cognitive trust

Frontiers in Communication
This paper introduces the concept of communicative trust, defined as trust in a speaker's cooperative linguistic behavior. Communicative trust is distinguished from both cognitive trust and rapport.
Sven Bernecker, Sven Bernecker, Sven Bernecker, Thomas Grundmann, Thomas Grundmann   +4 more
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Wouldn't it be Lovely: Explanation and Scientific realism:Review Symposium on Peter Lipton: 'Inference to the Best Explanation

, 2005
Review Symposium on Peter Lipton: 'Inference to the Best Explanation' (second edition), London: Routledge ...
Ladyman, JAC
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Learning from Surprising Observations in Management – Longitudinal Accounts

Journal of Organizational Sociology
Accounts can be understood as “repair of problematic situations”, which, in turn, may be seen as inference to the best explanation of a surprising observation.
Jönsson Sten, Jönsson Richard
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