Common cause abduction: the formation of theoretical concepts and models in science

DOI10.1093/JIGPAL/JZW029MaRDI QIDQ4644552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerhard Schurz

Publication date 8 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzw029

zbMATH Keywords

common cause abductioncreative abductionstatistical factor analysistheoretical conceptstheoretical models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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