Extrapolation, Analogy, and Comparative Process Tracing.
Comparative process tracing is the best analysis of extrapolation inferences in the philosophical and scientific literature so far. In this essay I examine some similarities and differences between comparative process tracing and former attempts to capture the logic of extrapolation, such as the ana...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 1070 - 1083 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2010
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| Sumario: | Comparative process tracing is the best analysis of extrapolation inferences in the philosophical and scientific literature so far. In this essay I examine some similarities and differences between comparative process tracing and former attempts to capture the logic of extrapolation, such as the analogical approach. I show that these accounts are not different in spirit, although comparative process tracing supersedes previous proposals in terms of analytical detail. I also examine some qualms about the possibility of drawing extrapolation inferences in the social sciences and conclude by suggesting that there may be cases of extrapolation without process tracing. |
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