Toward a propensity interpretation of stochastic mechanism for the life sciences.

In what follows, I suggest that it makes good sense to think of the truth of (at least some of) the probabilistic generalizations made in the life sciences as metaphysically grounded in stochastic mechanisms in the world. To further understand these stochastic mechanisms, I take the general characte...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 192; no. 9; pp. 2921 - 2954
Autor principal: DesAutels, Lane
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Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2015
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