A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8399666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall G Mccutcheon (0000-0002-5305-3662, University of Memphis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 431-434 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/714797 |
| OpenAlex | W3033864490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Schoenfield has constructed examples of proper inaccuracy measures that value verisimilitude (in a certain sense) in spaces of worlds equipped with a particular variety of verisimilitude metric. However, Schoenfield left it as an open question whether ‘for every space of worlds, there is a proper inaccuracy measure that values verisimilitude’. Here I answer this question in the affirmative
Data mining · Economics · Epistemology · Measure (data warehouse · Metric (unit · Space (punctuation) · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Verisimilitude · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |