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Science and Scepticism
Volume 516 in the series
Princeton Legacy Library
- Language: English
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Copyright year: 1984
- Edition: Course Book
- Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
- Pages
- Main content: 408
- Keywords: Hypothesis; Probability; Skepticism; Requirement; Explanation; Inference; Axiom; Probabilism; Prediction; Verisimilitude; Scientific theory; Instance (computer science); Inductive reasoning; David Hume; Theory; Premise; Circular reasoning; Transcendental arguments; Impenetrability; Problem of induction; Ad hominem; Reality; Free parameter; Infinite regress; Phenomenalism; Inductivism; Philosopher; Occam's razor; Reason; Falsity; Classical logic; Deductive-nomological model; Sensationalism; Pseudoscience; Truism; Mutual exclusivity; Dialectician; Pyrrhonism; Explanatory power; Persuasive definition; Received view; Tautology (rhetoric); Falsifiability; Modern physics; Fallibilism; Hilary Putnam; Holism; J. L. Austin; A priori probability; Logical reasoning; Rationality; Michael Polanyi; Pre-established harmony; Relativism; Ontology; Contradiction; Neutral monism; Begging the question; Testability; Posterior probability; Bayesian probability; Bayesian statistics; Phrenology; Deductive reasoning; Anti-realism; Paradox; Antireductionism; Possible world; Richard Jeffrey; Reductionism; Good and evil; Magical thinking; Idealism; Materialism; Ordinary language philosophy; Certainty; First principle; Ought implies can; Determinism; Scientific realism; Predictive power; Wrong direction; A priori and a posteriori; Is–ought problem; Extrapolation; Analytic–synthetic distinction; Almost surely; Asymmetry; Edmund Husserl; Fair coin; Agnosticism; Form of life (philosophy); Atomism; Ad hoc; Modus tollens; Classical physics; Fideism; Bayesian; Suggestion; Lottery paradox
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- Published: July 14, 2014
- ISBN: 9781400857364
