Description: This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years. Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his first theory of nomic truth approximation, viz. by dropping an unnecessarily strong assumption. In particular, he first believed to have to assume that theories were maximally specific in the sense that they did not only exclude certain conceptual possibilities, but also that all non-excluded possibilities were in fact claimed to be nomically possible. Now, he argues that the exclusion claim alone, or for that matter the inclusion claim alone, is sufficient to motivate the formal definition of being closer to the nomic truth. The papers collected here detail this generalized view of nomic truthlikeness or verisimilitude.
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Publication Year: 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited
Author: Theo A. F. Kuipers
Genre: Law, Science, Philosophy of Science
Item Length: 9.3in
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Physics / General
Item Width: 6.1in
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Number of Pages: Xi, 346 Pages
