Modes of convergence to the truth: steps toward a better epistemology of induction

DOI10.1017/S1755020321000605MaRDI QIDQ5078810zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hanti Lin

Publication date 25 May 2022

Published in The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755020321000605

zbMATH Keywords

learninginductionOckham's razorraven problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Computational learning theory (68Q32) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45)

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