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PREDICTIVISM
PREDICTIVISM

Author(s): Richard Swinburne
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers

Summary/Abstract: Normally, whether evidence of observation e confirms hypothesis h relative to background evidence k is a matter of the logical relations between e, h, and k, and independent of whether h was formulated before or after the discovery of e. This is supported by intuitions about various examples from history of science, and fits in with a Bayesian account of confirmation. There are however abnormal cases where the background evidence has a special character, when it does become relevant when h was formulated and k records that.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 71-85
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian
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