Evaluating competing theories via a common language of qualitative verdicts

DOI10.1007/s11229-015-0929-4zbMath1360.03052OpenAlexW2116464345MaRDI QIDQ513944

Wulf Gaertner, Nicolas Wüthrich

Publication date: 8 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64151/7/W%C3%BCthrich_Evaluating%20competing%20theories_2015.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

social choice theoryscoring rulesepistemic valuestheory choiceThomas S. Kuhn

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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