Results on inquiry and truth possession

Alvin I. Goldman and Moshe Shaked

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1991, vol. 12, issue 5, 415-420

Abstract: Some results are described in this paper which arise from the philosophical study of the relationship between scientific activity and truth acquisition. A definition of truth possession is given and it is shown that, under a certain assumption, every scientific experiment increases on the average the amount of truth possession. Experiments are compared for their average contribution to the increase in truth possession. It is postulated that scientists choose their activities with the aim of obtaining professional credit and the relation between credit-worthiness and truth-worthiness is explored.

Keywords: Philosophy; of; science; truth; acquisition; scientific; experiment; Bayes; Theorem; Jensen; Inequality; credit; truth; possession; difference; between; prior; and; posterior; beliefs; dilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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