Assessing theories, Bayes style
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Assessing theories, Bayes style
The problem adressed in this paper is “the main epistemic problem concerning science”, viz. “the explication of how we compare and evaluate theories [...] in the light of the available evidence” (van Fraassen 1983: 27). Sections 1-3 contain the general plausibility-informativeness theory of theory assessment. In a nutshell, the message is (1) that there are two values a theory should exhibit: t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9141-x