Unification and confirmation
According to the traditional requirement, formulated by William Whewell in his account of the “consilience of inductions” in 1840, a scientific hypothesis should have unifying power in the sense that it explains and predicts several mutually independent phenomena. Variants of this notion of consilie...
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| Autor Principal: | Niiniluoto, Ilkka |
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Publicado en: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science Vol. 31, n. 1 (2016) |