Laws and Symmetry¶
van Fraassen, B. C. (1989). Laws and Symmetry. Oxford University Press.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- This clarity redirects attention from formal validity to comparative explanatory power — the very move van Fraassen (1989) targets in his Bayesian critique of inference to the best explanation, where he argues that explanatory ranking is not guaranteed to track posterior probability and so requires independent justification.
This sourceContains the influential critique of inference to the best explanation (Ch. 6, 'Inference to the Best Explanation: Salvation by Laws?') arguing that explanatory ranking cannot serve as an independent epistemic rule alongside Bayesian conditionalization without leading to probabilistic incoherence.
- This clarity redirects attention from formal validity to comparative explanatory power — the very move van Fraassen (1989) targets in his Bayesian critique of inference to the best explanation, where he argues that explanatory ranking is not guaranteed to track posterior probability and so requires independent justification.
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