Realism, rhetoric, and reliability

DOI10.1007/s11229-015-0993-9zbMath1384.03085OpenAlexW2340823255MaRDI QIDQ516309

Hanti Lin, Kevin T. Kelly, Konstantin Genin

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0993-9

zbMATH Keywords

learningtopologytestabilitysimplicityOckham's razorepistemic justification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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