What do patterns in empirical data tell us about the structure of the world?

This article discusses the relation between features of empirical data and structures in the world. I defend the following claims. Any empirical data set exhibits all possible patterns, each with a certain noise term. The magnitude and other properties of this noise term are irrelevant to the eviden...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 182; no. 1; pp. 73 - 88
Autor principal: McAllister, James W.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2011
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