ON POPPER'S DEFINITIONS OF VERISIMILITUDE1

DOI10.1093/BJPS/25.2.155MaRDI QIDQ4156746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavel Tichý

Publication date 1974

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/25.2.155

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) General logic (03B99) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

Cited in

(47)

• Measuring truthlikeness
• Scientific progress
• Verisimilitude based on concept analysis
• On comparing theories
• Verisimilitude revisited
• The distance between constituents
• Truthlikeness: Comments on recent discussion
• Verisimilitude by means of short theorems
• A new theory of content. II: Model theory and some alternatives
• False though partly true -- an experiment in logic
• The problem of coherence and truth redux
• Revising beliefs towards the truth
• Verisimilitude and belief change for conjunctive theories
• Unity as an epistemic virtue
• Translation invariance and Miller's weather example
• Scoring in context
• Truthlikeness: old and new debates
• Refined nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates
• A partial consequence account of truthlikeness
• Relevant consequence and empirical inquiry
• The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination
• Verisimilitude and belief change for nomic conjunctive theories
• An impossibility theorem for verisimilitude
• Point-free geometry and verisimilitude of theories
• Truth approximation, belief merging, and peer disagreement
• The objectivity of truth, a core truism?
• Learning theory and epistemology
• Verisimilitude: views and reviews
• Acceptance, aggregation and scoring rules
• Assessing theories: the coherentist approach
• Models, postulates, and generalized nomic truth approximation
• Relevance and verisimilitude
• Probability and proximity in surprise
• Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning
• Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws
• Propositional and credal accuracy in an indeterministic world
• Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness. A neo-Popperian account applicable to probabilistic theories
• Some remarks on Popper's qualitative criterion of verisimilitude
• Verisimilitude and truthmaking
• Approaching truth in conceptual spaces
• Why explanatory considerations matter
• Nomic truthlikeness in the light of a probabilistic representation of propositions
• Non-metric propositional similarity
• On comparison of theories by their contents
• Verisimilitude vs. legisimilitude
• Verisimilitude and content
• Decision framing in judgment aggregation

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