Truthlikeness for Quantitative Statements
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:208 - 216 (1982)
| Abstract | The most elaborate recent accounts of truthlikeness (verisimilitude) apply this notion primarily to generalizations in first-order languages with qualitative predicates. This paper outlines a new approach to the definition of truthlikeness for quantitative statements, including singular statements (point estimation), interval statements (interval estimation), and quantitative laws. In the case of laws, the basic issue is reduced to the topological problem of measuring the distance between two real-valued functions. The solution of this problem makes it possible to define also the notion of approximate truth for quantitative laws. | |||||||||
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