Verisimilitude: The Third Period

DOI10.1093/BJPS/49.1.1MaRDI QIDQ4490087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilkka Niiniluoto

Publication date 16 November 2000

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/49.1.1

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of sciencesimilaritysurveytruthlikenessverisimilitude

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations (03-02) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30)

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