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Preface | |
Methodology | |
Introduction | |
Aspects of the scientific method | |
A taste of Bayesianism | |
Probability | |
The primitive theory | |
Subjectivism | |
The rationalist interpretation | |
The logical interpretation | |
The evidential state | |
The empirical interpretation | |
Confirmation | |
Explications | |
The paradox | |
A Bayesian pseudo-solution to the problem of induction | |
Projection | |
Induction | |
The Nature of Inductive Inference | |
Conditions of Rationality | |
Demonstrable reliability | |
The demonstrable reliability of c+ | |
Immodesty | |
Audacity | |
The Justification of Induction | |
The impossibility of a noncircular rationale | |
Inductive demonstration of reliability | |
Semantic justification | |
Prediction | |
Surprise | |
Severe tests | |
Ad hoc hypothesis | |
Prediction versus accommodation | |
Evidence | |
The evidential value of varied data | |
The value of further data | |
Realism | |
Popper | |
Realism versus instrumentalism | |
Putnam | |
Glymour | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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