WHEN IS PARSIMONY A VIRTUE?
Parsimony is a virtue of empirical theories. Is it also a virtue of philosophical theories? I review four contemporary accounts of the virtue of parsimony in empirical theorizing, and consider how each might apply to two prominent appeals to parsimony in the philosophical literature, those made on b...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 59; no. 235; pp. 216 - 237 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2009
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