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Autore |
Achinstein Peter |
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Titolo |
The book of evidence / / Peter Achinstein |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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0-19-983302-8 |
9786610427918 |
1-280-42791-4 |
1-4237-5646-0 |
0-19-803291-9 |
1-60256-488-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in philosophy of science |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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