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(2004) Induction and deduction in the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer.

Inference to the best explanation and bayesianism

Stathis Psillos

pp. 83-91

Niiniluoto (2003) has offered an incisive and comprehensive review of the recent debates about abduction. There is little on which I disagree with him. So, in this commentary, I shall try to cast some doubts to the attempts to render Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) within a Bayesian framework.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2196-1_6

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Psillos, S. (2004)., Inference to the best explanation and bayesianism, in F. Stadler (ed.), Induction and deduction in the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 83-91.