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Galileo’s Discovery of the Moons Orbiting Jupiter Based on Abductive Inference Strategies
Jun-Young Oh,Yoo Shin Kim +1 more
- pp 281-299
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A noble and refined model for abduction inference is proposed and its validity is shown by applying to the inferential process of “Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter”, with historically considered evidence.Abstract:
The objective of this study is to understand the scientific inferential processes of Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons. Abductive reasoning has played very important roles in producing creative leaps and breakthrough for scientific discovery in history of science. This article presents a scientific procedure that involves abductive inference in general. And we propose a noble and refined model for abduction inference and show its validity by applying to the inferential process of “Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter”, with historically considered evidence. It makes three broad macro perspectives; rather than only hypothetico-deductive method, (1) “fixed stars hypothesis suspected”, (2) Moon hypothesis can be suggested and selected by abductive strategies, (3) Moon hypothesis expansion.read more
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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)
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The Foundations of Scientific Inference.
T. Greenwood,Wesley C. Salmon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the philosophical problems of probablity and induction is presented, and a variety of traditional and contemporary ways of dealing with this problem are considered.
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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
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