Verisimilitude and content

DOI10.1007/S11229-005-2565-XMaRDI QIDQ882846zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ken Gemes

Publication date 24 May 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-2565-x

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Recommendations

• On comparison of theories by their contents
• The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination
• A partial consequence account of truthlikeness
• Carnapian truthlikeness
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4106800

Cites work

• A new theory of content. I: Basic content
• A new theory of content. II: Model theory and some alternatives
• ON POPPER'S DEFINITIONS OF VERISIMILITUDE¹
• POPPER'S DEFINITIONS OF ‘VERISIMILITUDE’¹
• POPPER'S QUALITATIVE THEORY OF VERISIMILITUDE
• Verisimilitude revisited
• Verisimilitude: The Third Period

Cited in

(22)

• A new theory of content. I: Basic content
• The problem of coherence and truth redux
• Verisimilitude and belief change for conjunctive theories
• Verisimilitude and belief revision. With a focus on the relevant element account
• The concept of relevance and the logic diagram tradition
• Truthlikeness: old and new debates
• A partial consequence account of truthlikeness
• Zwart and Franssen's impossibility theorem holds for possible-world-accounts but not for consequence-accounts to verisimilitude
• The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination
• Verisimilitude and belief change for nomic conjunctive theories
• Verisimilitude: views and reviews
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4106800 (Why is no real title available?)
• Verisimilitude: The Third Period
• Carnapian truthlikeness
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2149372 (Why is no real title available?)
• Exploring and extending the landscape of conjunctive approaches to verisimilitude
• Probabilistic truthlikeness, content elements, and meta-inductive probability optimization
• Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness. A neo-Popperian account applicable to probabilistic theories
• Some remarks on Popper's qualitative criterion of verisimilitude
• Verisimilitude and truthmaking
• Why explanatory considerations matter
• On comparison of theories by their contents

This page was built for publication: Verisimilitude and content

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q882846)