A reduction of the theory of confirmation to the notions of distance and measure

DOI10.1093/JIGPAL/5.1.49zbMATH Open0872.03014OpenAlexW2038387992MaRDI QIDQ4340928FDOQ4340928

Authors: K. Schlechta 

Publication date: 24 August 1997

Published in: Logic Journal of the IGPL (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/5.1.49

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zbMATH Keywords

distancenonmonotonic reasoningformal semanticsaxiomatizationsphilosophy of scienceanalogical reasoningformalization of confirmation of a theory through observation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other nonclassical logic (03B60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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