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What’s Wrong with Salmon’s History: The Third Decade
Philosophy of Science 59 (2):246-262 (1992)
Abstract
My purpose here is to elaborate the reasons I maintain that Salmon has not been completely successful in reporting the history of work on explanation. The most important limitation of his account is that it does not emphasize the critical necessity to embrace a suitable conception of probability in the development of the theory of probabilistic explanationMy notes
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A deductive-nomological model of probabilistic explanation.Peter Railton - 1978 - Philosophy of Science 45 (2):206-226.
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