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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... differences 37 Causal triangulation 41 4 Inference to the Best Explanation 55 Spelling out the slogan 55 Attractions and repulsions 64 5 Contrastive inference 71 A case study 71 Explanation and deduction 82 6 The raven paradox 91 ...
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