Evaluating competing theories via a common language of qualitative verdicts

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0929-4MaRDI QIDQ513944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wulf Gaertner, Nicolas Wüthrich

Publication date 8 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64151/7/W%C3%BCthrich_Evaluating%20competing%20theories_2015.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

epistemic valuesscoring rulessocial choice theorytheory choiceThomas S. Kuhn

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Social choice (91B14)

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