Explicativity, corroboration, and the relative odds of hypotheses. With comments by William L. Harper and John R. Wettersten

DOI10.1007/BF00485294zbMath0307.62003OpenAlexW2057016870MaRDI QIDQ1218235

Irving John Good

Publication date: 1975

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00485294

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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