Hempel, Grue and the Logical Empiricist Baseline

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Coakley, Mathew [1 ]
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[1] Univ Warwick, Coventry CV2 7AL, W Midlands, England
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10.1007/s10670-017-9922-2
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
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A logical empiricist "baseline statement" can formalize some propositions established by a body of evidence or set of observations. However, it may not necessarily capture, of two propositions it entails, whether all the subsets of the evidence that establish one proposition also establish the other, vice versa, or neither. Yet, according to this paper, which obtains should sometimes matter for confirmation. It illustrates by showing how this "evidential dependence" can be used to address problems with generalizations of grue-like predicates, and do so still within a very simple broadly Hempelian framework.
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