POPPER'S QUALITATIVE THEORY OF VERISIMILITUDE

DOI10.1093/BJPS/25.2.166zbMATH Open0377.02007OpenAlexW2060843449MaRDI QIDQ4156748FDOQ4156748

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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/25.2.166

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Translation invariance and Miller's weather example
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• Relevance and verisimilitude
• Some observations on induction in predicate probabilistic reasoning
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• The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination
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• A computational approach to fuzzy quantifiers in natural languages
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• Truth approximation, belief merging, and peer disagreement
• Verisimilitude and content
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• Point-free geometry and verisimilitude of theories
• False though partly true -- an experiment in logic
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• A note on binary inductive logic
• The logic of empirical theories revisited
• Truthlikeness: old and new debates
• Probability and proximity in surprise
• Verisimilitude based on concept analysis
• Verisimilitude revisited
• Some remarks on Popper's qualitative criterion of verisimilitude
• Verisimilitude and truthmaking
• Measuring truthlikeness
• Decision framing in judgment aggregation
• The distance between constituents
• Truthlikeness: Comments on recent discussion
• Approaching truth in conceptual spaces
• Why explanatory considerations matter
• Verisimilitude: views and reviews
• The problem of coherence and truth redux
• Models, postulates, and generalized nomic truth approximation
• Keep changing your beliefs, aiming for the truth
• On comparing theories
• On comparison of theories by their contents

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