03159nam 2200745Ia 450 991078457540332120230627152135.00-19-983302-897866104279181-280-42791-41-4237-5646-00-19-803291-91-60256-488-4(CKB)1000000000362966(EBL)3052448(OCoLC)191038418(SSID)ssj0000113774(PQKBManifestationID)11828169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113774(PQKBWorkID)10101307(PQKB)10943152(SSID)ssj0000085631(PQKBManifestationID)12015406(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085631(PQKBWorkID)10025511(PQKB)11486841(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075490(MiAaPQ)EBC3052448(MiAaPQ)EBC272826(Au-PeEL)EBL3052448(CaPaEBR)ebr10212287(CaONFJC)MIL42791(Au-PeEL)EBL272826(EXLCZ)99100000000036296620010418d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe book of evidence[electronic resource] /Peter AchinsteinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20011 online resource (299 p.)Oxford studies in philosophy of scienceDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-514389-2 0-19-517171-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""1. The Dean's Challenge""; ""2. Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge""; ""3. Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence""; ""4. What's Wrong with These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence?""; ""5. Objective Epistemic Probability""; ""6. Evidence, High Probability, and Belief""; ""7. The Explanatory Connection""; ""8. Final Definitions and Realism""; ""9. Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue""; ""10. Explanation versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential Weight?""; ""11. Old-Age and New-Age Holism""""12. Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality""""13. Who Really Discovered the Electron?""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""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.Oxford studies in philosophy of science.EvidenceLogicEvidence.Logic.121/.65Achinstein Peter44146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784575403321The book of evidence3867971UNINA