The logic of theory assessment

DOI10.1007/S10992-006-9044-9MaRDI QIDQ2454872zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Franz Huber

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-83263

zbMATH Keywords

adequacyprobability measuresphilosophy of scienceranking functionsconfirmationpositive relevancenonmonotonic consequence relationsconfirmatory consequence relationsinformative theoriesplausible theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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