The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination

DOI10.1007/s11229-011-9930-8zbMath1284.03126OpenAlexW2061196955MaRDI QIDQ2441756

Graham Oddie

Publication date: 28 March 2014

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9930-8

zbMATH Keywords

truthlikenessverisimilitudecloseness to truthdistance from the truthdistances between propositionslikeness to truth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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