The best explanation¶
Thagard, P. R. (1978). The best explanation: Criteria for theory choice. Journal of Philosophy, 75(2), 76-92.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- The virtue weights are themselves contested and partly substrate-specific; what abduction names is the structural fact that some such ranking is performed, not the particular weighting, an inventory Thagard (1978) develops in his canonical account of explanatory criteria for theory choice.
This sourceCanonical inventory of the explanatory virtues — consilience (scope), simplicity, and analogy — by which competing hypotheses are ranked in inference to the best explanation, and analysis of how these criteria function argumentatively in scientific theory choice.
- The virtue weights are themselves contested and partly substrate-specific; what abduction names is the structural fact that some such ranking is performed, not the particular weighting, an inventory Thagard (1978) develops in his canonical account of explanatory criteria for theory choice.
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