The book of evidence /
What is required for something to be evidence for an hypothesis? In this text, Peter Achinstein, introduces here a basic concept of potential evidence which is characterised using a novel epistemic interpretation of probability.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| মালা: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- The dean's challenge
- Concepts of evidence, or how the electron got its charge
- Two major prbabilistic theories of evidence
- What's wrong with these probabilistic theories of evidence?
- Objective epistemic probability
- Evidence, high probability, and belief
- The explanatory connection
- Final definitions and realism
- Two paradoxes of evidence : ravens and grue
- Explanation versus prediction : which carries more evidential weight?
- Old-age and new-age holism
- Evidence for molecules : Jean Perrin and molecular reality
- Who really discovered the electron?