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The Objects of Acceptance: Competing Scientific Explanations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2022
Abstract
Important revisions and additions to the contemporary objectives of acceptance rules result from construing a theory of warranted inductive inference to presuppose an account of adequate scientific explanations. We conceive the objects of acceptance rules to be the best of competing scientific explanations. Our primary interest is to show how to construct an analysis of competing explanations. Hence our specific investigation concerns the interrelations between the criteria of adequacy for scientific explanations and the definitions of the modes of competition between explanations.
- Type
- Part IX Scientific Explanation
- Information
- PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1972 , 1972 , pp. 349 - 363
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- Copyright © 1974 by D. Reidel Publishing Company