Truthlikeness for Multidimensional, Quantitative Cognitive Problems
Author:   I.A. Kieseppä
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996
Volume:   254
ISBN:  

9789048146925


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This book is concerned with the problem of applying the theory of verisimilitude to cognitive problems of a quantitative nature. Attention is mostly focused on hypotheses concerned with (physical or other) systems whose state can be represented with an element of a multidimensional state space, but hypotheses concerned with quantitative laws are also considered. The book provides a systematic introduction to the main contemporary forms of the theory of verisimilitude, including both proposed definitions of quantitative degrees of verisimilitude and proposed definitions of the relation 'closer to the truth than'. It shows why the quantitative measures that have been proposed earlier produce unacceptable results in the multidimensional case and, using the tools of geometric measure theory, works out alternatives for them in detail. In addition, the standard structuralist theory of science and the way in which the problems of approximation are dealt with in it are presented and evaluated critically.

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Author:   I.A. Kieseppä
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996
Volume:   254
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9789048146925


ISBN 10:   9048146925
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. On Competing Theories of Verisimilitude and on Evaluating Them.- 3. The Problems of Arbitrariness and Vagueness.- 4. The Measures of Verisimilitude of the Similarity Approach.- 5. Verisimilitude and the Standard Structuralist Framework.- 6. The Structuralist Definitions of Verisimilitude.- 7. Galileo, Aristotle, and Some Difficulties with Quantitative Laws.- 8. Concluding Remarks.- Notes.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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