Inference to the Best Explanation
โ Peter Lipton
๐ Library
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2004
๐ Routledge
๐ English
How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of<em>Inference to the Best Explanation</em>, 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 ex