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What’s Really at Issue with Novel Predictions?
Synthese 155 (1):1-20 (2007)
Abstract
In this paper I distinguish two kinds of predictivism, 'timeless' and 'historicized'. The former is the conventional understanding of predictivism. However, I argue that its defense in the works of John Worrall and Patrick Maher is wanting. Alternatively, I promote an historicized predictivism, and briefly defend such a predictivism at the end of the paper.Author's Profile
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The apparent superiority of prediction to accommodation as a side effect: A reply to Maher.Marc Lange - 2001 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (3):575-588.
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