Unification and confirmation

DOI10.1387/THEORIA.13084MaRDI QIDQ5354783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ilkka Niiniluoto

Publication date 4 September 2017

Published in THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.13084

zbMATH Keywords

abductionconfirmationconsilienceexplanatory powersystematizationtestabilityunification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05)

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