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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Dec2010
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