The theory of inductive inference developed by I. Levi in Gambling with Truth has two important limitations. In the first place, it makes acceptability of hypotheses 'question-dependent': any statement of the form 'It is reasonable to believe a hypothesis h on evidence e' has to be expanded so as to
Reasons for Belief, Reasoning, Virtues
β Scribed by Christopher hookway
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Volume
- 130
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8116
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