Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws.

Truthlikeness is a property of a theory or a proposition that represents its closeness to the truth. We start by summarizing Niiniluoto's (Truthlikeness, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987) proposal of truthlikeness for deterministic laws (DL), which defines truthlikeness as a function of accuracy, and García-...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 3/4; pp. 9359 - 9390
Main Author: García-Lapeña, Alfonso
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2021
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