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If Universes Were as Plenty as Blackberries: Peirce on Induction and Verisimilitude.

The article discusses American philosopher Charles S. Peirce's thought on the relation of inductive inference to the concept of probability and likelihood. It describes the difference between probability and what Peirce calls "verisimilitude," Peirce's critique of Bayesianism, and Peirce's influence...

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Publicado en:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 423 - 453
Autor principal: BURCH, ROBERT
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Indiana University Press Summer2010
Materias:
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
Induction (Logic)
Probability theory
Bayesian analysis
Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827
American philosophers
Statistics
United States
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Sumario:The article discusses American philosopher Charles S. Peirce's thought on the relation of inductive inference to the concept of probability and likelihood. It describes the difference between probability and what Peirce calls "verisimilitude," Peirce's critique of Bayesianism, and Peirce's influence on 20th century statistical theories such as sampling theory and hypothesis-testing. Other subjects under discussion include the relation between Peirce's philosophy and the philosophers Pierre Simon Laplace, Augustus De Morgan, and Adolphe Quetelet.