Ebook: Statistics in Science : the Foundations of Statistical Methods in Biology, Physics and Economics
Author: Cooke Roger, Costantini Domenico
- Tags: Statistics., Biology -- Philosophy., Science -- Philosophy., History.
- Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science 122
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- City: Dordrecht
- Language: English
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An inference may be defined as a passage of thought according to some method. In the theory of knowledge it is customary to distinguish deductive and non-deductive inferences. Deductive inferences are truth preserving, that is, the truth of the premises is preserved in the con clusion. As a result, the conclusion of a deductive inference is already 'contained' in the premises, although we may not know this fact�Read more...
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Such inferences can be expansive, or, ampliative in the sense that the performances of such inferences actually increases our putative knowledge. Standard non-deductive inferences do not really�Read more...
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