Testability and Ockham’s Razor: How Formal and Statistical Learning Theory Converge in the New Riddle of Induction.

Nelson Goodman’s new riddle of induction forcefully illustrates a challenge that must be confronted by any adequate theory of inductive inference: provide some basis for choosing among alternative hypotheses that fit past data but make divergent predictions. One response to this challenge is to dist...

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Publicado en:Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 471 - 490
Autor principal: Steel, Daniel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2009
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