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Common cause completability of non classical probability spaces [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2016 We prove that under some technical assumptions on a general, non-classical probability space, the probability space is extendible into a larger probability space that is common cause closed in the sense of containing a common cause of every correlation ...
Gyenis Zalán, Rédei Miklós
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Imprecise Bayesian Networks as Causal Models
Information, 2018 This article considers the extent to which Bayesian networks with imprecise probabilities, which are used in statistics and computer science for predictive purposes, can be used to represent causal structure. It is argued that the adequacy conditions for
David Kinney
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What’s Wrong with Aim-Oriented Empiricism? [PDF]
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2015 For four decades it has been argued that we need to adopt a new conception of science called aim-oriented empiricism. This has far-reaching implications and repercussions for science, the philosophy of science, academic inquiry in general, the ...
Nicholas Maxwell
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Towards a Fair Distribution Mechanism for Asylum
Games, 2017 It has been suggested that the distribution of refugees over host countries can be made more fair or efficient if policy makers take into account not only numbers of refugees to be distributed but also the goodness of the matches between refugees and ...
Philippe van Basshuysen
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Revisiting the Scientific Method [PDF]
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2009 “Truth is sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for anything for its own sake are not interested in other things. Finding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough.”1 —Ibn al-Haytham So wrote Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), who was born around 965 in Basra (now Iraq, but then part of Persia), lived most of his life ...
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When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution?
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Research hypotheses have been a cornerstone of science since before Galileo. Many have argued that hypotheses (1) encourage discovery of mechanisms, and (2) reduce bias—both features that should increase transferability and reproducibility.
Matthew G. Betts +16 more
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Bir Araştırma Programı Olarak Felsefe Günümüze Ne Söyler?
Tetkik, 2022 Bilim kuramının kendisine doğa bilimlerini konu edindiği hatta kendi özel inceleme alanını doğa bilimlerine göre kurguladığı malumdur. Ancak on dokuzuncu yüzyılda sosyal bilimlerin doğası ve yöntemi üzerine tartışmalar, yirminci yüzyıldaki felsefi ...
Celal Türer
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Harvey and the Scientific Method [PDF]
BMJ, 1950 We can, however, study the mind of the man and its working in his writings. It is this which conveys to us a due sense of his greatness ; it is this which helps us to assess his contribution to that irrepressible insurgence of the human spirit which reveals itself in the advancing frontiers of knowledge.
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Concept of premature mortality: protocol for a scoping review
BMJ OpenIntroduction Premature mortality (PM) is a concept applied in public health, epidemiology, medicine, demography and economics. Its conceptualisations vary across disciplines and often rely on implicit normative assumptions.
Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer +1 more
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