Explanationist Aid for the Theory of Inductive Logic

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXP008MaRDI QIDQ3638864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Huemer

Publication date 28 October 2009

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axp008

zbMATH Keywords

inductive logicinference to the best explanationExplanatory Priority ProvisoPrinciple of Indifference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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