The Apparent Superiority of Prediction to Accommodation as a Side Effect
A Reply to Maher
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| ID | 11512930 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Marc Lange (0000-0002-0704-7376, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2001 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 575-588 |
| Data de publicação | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/52.3.575 |
| OpenAlex | W2030075438 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 15 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
Maher ([1990], [1993]) has offered a lovely example to motivate the intuition that a successful prediction has a kind of confirmatory significance that an accommodation lacks. This paper scrutinizes Maher's example. It argues that once the example is tweaked, the intuitive difference there between prediction and accommodation disappears. This suggests that the apparent superiority of prediction to accommodation is actually a side effect of an important difference between the hypotheses that tend to arise in each case
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| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,68 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 15 |