Works by McMichael, Alan F. (exact spelling)

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    A pragmatic modification of explicativity for the acceptance of hypotheses.I. J. Good & Alan F. McMichael - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (1):120-127.
    The use of a concept called "explicativity", for (provisionally) accepting a theory or Hypothesis H, has previously been discussed. That previous discussion took into account the prior probability of H, and hence implicitly its theoretical simplicity. We here suggest that a modification of explicativity is required to allow for what may be called the pragmatic simplicity of H, that is, the simplicity of using H in applications as distinct from the simplicity of the description of H.
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