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Novelty,coherence,and Mendeleev's periodic table
novel prediction use-novelty coherence Dmitri Mendeleev periodic table
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2016/6/15
Predictivism is the view that successful predictions of ‘novel’ evidence carry more confirmational weight than accommodations of already known evidence. Novelty, in this context, has traditionally bee...
Models,Mechanisms,and Coherence
Mechanistic explanations scientific realism modeling coherence
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2016/6/12
Life-science phenomena are often explained by specifying the mechanisms that bring them about. The new mechanistic philosophers have done much to substantiate this claim, and to provide us with a bett...
Emergent spacetime and empirical (in) coherence
spacetime quantum gravity empirical incoherence causal set theory loop quantum gravity string theory non-commutative geometry
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2016/5/30
Numerous approaches to a quantum theory of gravity posit fundamental ontologies that exclude spacetime, either partially or wholly. This situation raises deep questions about how such theories could r...
Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and the Problem of Belief Individuation
Coherence coherence measures Bovens Fitelson
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2008/4/22
Coherentism in epistemology has long suffered from lack of formal and quantitative explication of the notion of coherence. One might hope that such probabilistic accounts of coherence as those propose...
Theory Coherence and Antirealism
Scientific Realism Confutation of Antirealism
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2008/4/21
Cognitive scientific realism as presented in my previous paper is amended to include a new and strong epistemic indicator for truth of scietific theories: theory coherence and by implication level coh...
Why Lewis', Shogenji's and Fitelsons's notions of coherence cannot be accepted
Coherence coherence measure Bayesian coherence
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2008/4/18
In this paper, I show that Lewis' definition of coherence and Fitelson's and Shogenji's measures of coherence are unacceptable because they entail the absurdity that any set of beliefs in general is c...
A Corrective to Bovens and Hartmann's Measure of Coherence
Coherence measures of coherence Luc Bovens
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2008/4/9
Bovens and Hartmann (2003a, 2003b) propose to analyze
coherence as a confidence-boosting property. On the basis of
this idea, they construct a new probabilistic theory of coherence.
In this paper, ...
Constraints on the Origin of Coherence in Far-from-equilibrium Chemical Systems
化学 化学哲学 chemistry philosophy chemistry
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2007/3/19
Consideration of how dynamic coherences arise from less organized antecedents (`concrescence') is one of the central concerns of Whitehead's thought. Other chapters in this volume consider how his con...