Inference to the Best Theory, Rather than Inference to the Best Explanation: Kinds of Abduction and Induction

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 11:25-51 (2004)
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An interesting consequence of the structuralist theory of truth approximation, as developed in my From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism, henceforth ICR, concerns so-called ‘inference to the best explanation’. It will be argued that this popular rule among scientific realists can better be replaced by, various kinds of, ‘inference to the best theory’.

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