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Induction, Acceptance, and Rational Belief: A Selected Bibliography

Ralph L. Slaght
- pp 186-227
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In this article, the authors present a bibliography of books and articles published in the last 20 years which pertain to or are related to the topic of the book, including articles on paradoxes of confirmation, including Goodman's new riddle of induction and Miller's paradox of information.
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This bibliography is constructed, in the main, of books and articles published in the last 20 years, which pertain to or are related to the topic of the book. The bibliography has four sections: (I) Books and Anthologies, (II) Selected Reviews of those books, (III. A) Articles pertaining to the topic of the book and (III.B) Articles on related topics. No section contains an exhaustive compilation of materials, although an attempt was made not to omit any major contribution in the first three sections. Section III.B deals chiefly, but not exclusively, with articles on paradoxes of confirmation, including Goodman’s new riddle of induction and Miller’s paradox of information; the problems of confirmation theory and attempts to define measures of degrees of confirmation; simplicity; explanation; the logic of knowledge and belief; and analyses of empirical knowledge. For bibliographies of earlier material, see Keynes [50], Carnap [16], and von Wright [118]; for more recent literature see Kyburg [55] and [571] and Hilpinen [356].

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Logic of Statistical Inference. By Ian Hacking. Pp. ix, 232. 40s. 1965. (Cambridge University Press)

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory of testing based on the long run frequencies, the chance set-up, the law of likelihood, the fiducial argument, and the subjective theory.
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Aspects of Inductive Logic

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Probability and Scientific Inference

M. S. Bartlett
- 01 Jun 1957 - 
TL;DR: Scientific InferenceBy Sir Harold Jeffreys, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 1957.
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The uses of argument

TL;DR: In this paper, the origins of epistemological theory are discussed and the layout of argument and modal arguments are discussed, as well as the history of working logic and idealised logic.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

T. W. Hutchison, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1959 - 
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Theory of Probability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of direct probabilities, approximate methods and simplifications, and significant importance tests for various complications, including one new parameter, and various complications for frequency definitions and direct methods.
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On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses

TL;DR: The problem of testing statistical hypotheses is an old one as discussed by the authors and its origins are usually connected with the name of Thomas Bayes, who gave the well-known theorem on the probabilities a posteriori of the possible causes of a given event.