Identifiable collections of countable structures

Philosophy of Science 56 (1):94-105 (1989)
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Abstract

A model of idealized scientific inquiry is presented in which scientists are required to infer the nature of the structure that makes true the data they examine. A necessary and sufficient condition is presented for scientific success within this paradigm

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Identification in the limit of first order structures.Daniel Osherson & Scott Weinstein - 1986 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 15 (1):55 - 81.

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