Statistical explanation reconsidered

DOI10.1007/BF01063988zbMath0483.03013OpenAlexW2043485530MaRDI QIDQ1163010

Ilkka Niiniluoto

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01063988

zbMATH Keywords

expectationcausecounterfactualexplanatory situationprobabilistic lawsrelative frequencies in possible worldssubjective measures over possible worldsultimate partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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