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Coakley, Mathew (2017) Hempel, Grue and the logical empiricist baseline. Erkenntnis, 83 (5). pp. 969-982. doi:10.1007/s10670-017-9922-2 ISSN 0165-0106.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9922-2
Abstract
A logical empiricist “baseline statement” can formalize some propositions established by a body of evidence or set of observations. However, it may not necessarily capture, of two propositions it entails, whether all the subsets of the evidence that establish one proposition also establish the other, vice versa, or neither. Yet, according to this paper, which obtains should sometimes matter for confirmation. It illustrates by showing how this “evidential dependence” can be used to address problems with generalizations of grue-like predicates, and do so still within a very simple broadly Hempelian framework.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Erkenntnis | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0165-0106 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 83 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 969-982 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10670-017-9922-2 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 July 2018 |
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