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International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 1993
Abduction is the process of generating the best explanation as to why a fact is observed given what is already known. A real problem in this area is the selective generation of hypotheses that have some reasonable prospect of being valid. In this paper, we propose the notion of skeptical abduction as a model to face this problem.
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Abduction is the process of generating the best explanation as to why a fact is observed given what is already known. A real problem in this area is the selective generation of hypotheses that have some reasonable prospect of being valid. In this paper, we propose the notion of skeptical abduction as a model to face this problem.
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Scientific American, 2010
The author opines regarding the evaluation of science and pseudoscience while praising the skills of logician Christopher Hitchens in doing so. The author notes instances of Hitchens' commentary on unsound science including a display of quackery by an Indian medicine man and the flaws of creationism reflected in an episode of the television series ...
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The author opines regarding the evaluation of science and pseudoscience while praising the skills of logician Christopher Hitchens in doing so. The author notes instances of Hitchens' commentary on unsound science including a display of quackery by an Indian medicine man and the flaws of creationism reflected in an episode of the television series ...
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Preventive Medicine, 2004
To investigate the relationship between medical skepticism and overall self-rated health and to identify disparities in health for vulnerable subgroups among the elderly.A cross-sectional telephone survey involving multiple callbacks. Independent variables included three measures of medical skepticism and disparities variables (low income, low ...
James E, Rohrer, Tyrone F, Borders
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To investigate the relationship between medical skepticism and overall self-rated health and to identify disparities in health for vulnerable subgroups among the elderly.A cross-sectional telephone survey involving multiple callbacks. Independent variables included three measures of medical skepticism and disparities variables (low income, low ...
James E, Rohrer, Tyrone F, Borders
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991
Skepticism permeates our profession. It is ingrained during medical training and reinforced by professional experience. Who among us has not repeatedly seen claims for fourth-generation drugs with no side effects, new operations that yield glowing results with minimal complications, or the latest infallible, high-tech diagnostic procedure...
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Skepticism permeates our profession. It is ingrained during medical training and reinforced by professional experience. Who among us has not repeatedly seen claims for fourth-generation drugs with no side effects, new operations that yield glowing results with minimal complications, or the latest infallible, high-tech diagnostic procedure...
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Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form: If God exists, the world would not be like
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Abstract Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form: If God exists, the world would not be like
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Underdetermination Skepticism and Skeptical Dogmatism
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015The Mundane World Hypothesis (mwh) says that we have material bodies, we have brains located inside our bodies, we have sense organs which process visual information, the direct cause of our perceptual judgments is typically macroscopic material objects, and we live in a material world.
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The Art of Skepticism and the Skepticism of Art
Philosophy Today, 2009The world is woven all of dream and error And but one sureness in our truth may lie That when we hold to aught our thinking's mirror We know it not by knowing it thereby . . . We know the world is false, not what is true. Yet we think on. Fernando Pessoa At the beginning there was a call. After a while, somebody answered.
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Humean Skepticism
2020AbstractRichard Popkin famously argued that David Hume “maintained the only consistent Pyrrhonian point of view”; yet Hume explicitly rejected Pyrrhonism, as he understood it, in favor of a mitigated “Academic” skepticism. The keys to understanding Hume’s relationship to Pyrrhonism lie partly in his own historical understanding of it, but even more in ...
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Oakeshott’s Skepticism and the Skeptical Traditions
European Journal of Political Theory, 2005English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) called himself a skeptic at various times, and yet his writings reveal little or no engagement with either of the major Hellenistic skeptical traditions, Pyrrhonism and Academic skepticism. Although he argued that the best way to understand ourselves is to look at the mirror of our intellectual ...
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Skepticism and Climate Change Skepticism
2013We argue that the climate change debate has been plagued with confusions resulting from the fact that the word “skepticism” has been given positive connotations. Many people, including a number of professional philosophers and scientists, regard skepticism as an intellectual virtue, and as a particularly scientific virtue at that.
David Coady, Richard Corry
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