Coherence measures and inference to the best explanation

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9055-7MaRDI QIDQ2460167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David H. Glass

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9055-7

zbMATH Keywords

abductionBayesianismexplanationphilosophy of scienceinference to the best explanationprobabilistic measures of coherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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