Reconceiving Eliminative Inference.
Eliminative reasoning seems to play an important role in the sciences, but should it be part of our best theory of science? Statistical evidence, prevalent across the sciences, causes problems for eliminative inference, supporting the view that probabilistic theories of confirmation provide a better...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 185 - 209 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2011
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