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Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?

Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?

... SR-based explanation of theories’ predictive ...plausible explanation, or the best explanation? Skeptics may worry whether equations can be true apart from the entities and processes they ...

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Why Inference to the Best Explanation Doesn’t Secure Empirical Grounds for Mathematical Platonism

Why Inference to the Best Explanation Doesn’t Secure Empirical Grounds for Mathematical Platonism

... our best scientific theories are aimed at directly representing the world as is, scientific realists are arguably committed to thinking that the explanatorily essential components of our best theories and ...

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Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?

Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?

... the best, explanation of the fact that they are successful, and increasingly ...prediction, explanation, and technical control would be a miracle without the assumption that such theories are ...

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Study on Partial Least-Squares Regression Model of Simulating Freezing Depth Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

Study on Partial Least-Squares Regression Model of Simulating Freezing Depth Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

... Through theoretical analysis and calculation of PSO- PLS model, some conclusions can be obtained:.. 1) The variable can be processed by PLS model and the best explanation principal comp[r] ...

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The Crux of Crucial Experiments: Confirmation in Molecular Biology

The Crux of Crucial Experiments: Confirmation in Molecular Biology

... combination with the semi-conservative physiological mechanism is the best explanation for the banding patterns obtained by Meselson and Stahl, at least in the group of experimental... [r] ...

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A theory of everything. Review of Richard Dawid: String theory and the scientific method

A theory of everything. Review of Richard Dawid: String theory and the scientific method

... That is, the best explanation of the failure to find alternatives, the unexpected explanatory coherence of diverse phenomena, and the regular predictive success in the research program[r] ...

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Vol 10, No 1 (2016)

Vol 10, No 1 (2016)

... the Best Explanation (method of IBE) in the context of philological ...an explanation and a »best« ...an explanation to be qualified as »better« than ...

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Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing

Empirically Grounded Philosophical Theorizing

... the best explanation (IBE), when faced with contending explanations for the same phenomena, we should infer the alternative that provides the best explanation, which, according to ...

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Does IBE Require a "Model" of Explanation?

Does IBE Require a "Model" of Explanation?

... of explanation, then it would only make sense that there is more than one distinct, though compatible notion of inference to the best ...of explanation. Instead of claiming that any model of ...

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Explanation, unification, and content

Explanation, unification, and content

... grounding. Renormalization Theory really has the first virtue but lacks the second. Those who are greatly struck by its lack of the second virtue are prone to say it is not really an explanatory theory at all. In so ...

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Models and explanation

Models and explanation

... that explanation. An explanation based on the HKB model and the resources of dynamic systems theory will perform an analogous ...systems explanation, you are effectively giving a profile of the ...

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Essence and Explanation

Essence and Explanation

... Hale’s explanation of the necessary existence of ...This explanation merely shifts the original explanatory question to a new one: What explains the necessary existence of pure properties? Hale proposes ...

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Explanation and determination

Explanation and determination

... one’s explanation that the accident is a matter of unfortunate timing when it is in fact a matter of unfortunate timing, even if it is also a matter of many other things, such as my driving skills and the number ...

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Epistemic Two-Dimensionalism and Arguments From Epistemic Misclassification

Epistemic Two-Dimensionalism and Arguments From Epistemic Misclassification

... Unique Best Deserver theory, the Empty Scenario Argument drops out as a simple matter of logical consequence, because all of the information that we need to tease out [2] to [4] is con- tained in the proposition ...

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Computational modelling, explicit mathematical treatments, and scientific explanation

Computational modelling, explicit mathematical treatments, and scientific explanation

... What is important is that scientific models progress up the order of merit listed. A novel modelling approach that iden- tifies a new style of working model may have value even if it merely provides a performance of some ...

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Grounding and Normative Explanation

Grounding and Normative Explanation

... normative explanation requires just that grounding is an explanatory notion, plus a couple of widely recognized formal properties of standard examples of ...

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WP: Effective Explanation

WP: Effective Explanation

... your explanation is pitched towards a knowledgeable listener (just like you), and the person lacks the level of knowledge you have assumed, your explanation will ...

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Attention is not Explanation

Attention is not Explanation

... Implicit in this is the assumption that the input units (e.g., words) accorded high attention weights are responsible for model outputs. But as far as we are aware, this assumption has not been for- mally evaluated, and ...

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Assessing the role of planetary and gravity waves in the vertical structure of ozone over midlatitudinal Europe

Assessing the role of planetary and gravity waves in the vertical structure of ozone over midlatitudinal Europe

... For the explanation of these results we must look at the average lamina depth in small, medium, and large laminae Table 2, which was obtained for the best vertical resolution below 100 m[r] ...

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Degree of explanation

Degree of explanation

... terminology, full explanations, proposing criteria according to which some of these are better or more probable or otherwise more desirable than others. The focus has therefore not been on explanations whose cited causes ...

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