How good is an explanation?

DOI10.1007/S11229-022-04025-XMaRDI QIDQ6836512zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David H. Glass

Publication date 27 March 2026

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11229-022-04025-X

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesianconfirmationexplanationexplanatory goodnessexplanatory powerinformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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