Inference from the best systematization

Nicholas Rescher ()
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Nicholas Rescher: University of Pittsburgh

Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2016, vol. 15, issue 2, No 1, 147-154

Abstract: Abstract In recent decades “inference to the best explanation” has become a fashionable mode of reasoning. It is, however, highly problematic and flawed in ways that the article expounds. Instead, so it is argued, a process of inference from (not to) the best systematization of the relevant determinable facts is a far more plausible and promising procedure.

Keywords: Explanation; Systematization; Rational substantiation; Comprehensiveness; Cognitive organization; Harmonious coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11299-015-0186-8

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