Inference to the Best ExplanationHow do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we take the ability of a hypothesis to explain the evidence as a sign that the hypothesis is correct. In Inference to the Best Explanation, Peter Lipton gives this important and influential idea the development and assessment it deserves. |
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... additional defense of my account of contrastive explanation, further development of the idea that explanatory considerations are actually guiding inferences, and further responses to the objection that Inference to the Best Explanation ...
... additional rules (1965: ch. 1, sec. 8, esp. 58±9). Children learn the language of their elders, an ability that enables them to understand an indefinite number of sentences on first acquaintance. The talk young children hear, however ...
... addition to any general principles of deduction and induction, children must be born with strong linguistic rules or ... additional field-specific principles that determine the actual judgments. Unlike Chomsky, Kuhn does not argue for ...
... additional principles of inference, and we may study the patterns of our inferences in an attempt to discover what those principles are and to determine what they are worth. Justification The two central questions about our general ...
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