عنوان

Truthlikeness

شابک

9400937393

شابک

9789400937390

شماره

b559555

عنوان اصلي

Truthlikeness

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Ilkka Niiniluoto.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1987

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(548 pages)

عنوان فروست

Synthese library, 185.

متن يادداشت

1. Distance and Similarity --;1.1. Metric Spaces and Distances --;1.2. Topological Spaces and Uniformities --;1.3. Degrees of Similarity --;1.4. The Pragmatic Relativity of Similarity Relations --;2. Logical Tools --;2.1. Monadic Languages NL --;2.2. Q-Predicates --;2.3. State Descriptions --;2.4. Structure Descriptions --;2.5. Monadic Constituents --;2.6. Monadic Languages with Identity --;2.7. Polyadic Constituents --;2.8. Distributive Normal Forms --;2.9. First-Order Theories --;2.10. Inductive Logic --;2.11. Nomic Constituents --;3. Quantities, State Spaces, and Laws --;3.1. Quantities and Metrization --;3.2. From Conceptual Systems to State Spaces --;3.3. Laws of Coexistence --;3.4. Laws of Succession --;3.5. Probabilistic Laws --;4. Cognitive Problems, Truth, and Information --;4.1. Open and Closed Questions --;4.2. Cognitive Problems --;4.3. Truth --;4.4. Vagueness --;4.5. Semantic Information --;5. The Concept of Truthlikeness --;5.1. Truth, Error, and Fallibilism --;5.2. Probability and Verisimilitude --;5.3. Approach to the Truth --;5.4. Truth: Parts and Degrees --;5.5. Degrees of Truth: Attempted Definitions --;5.6. Popper's Qualitative Theory of Truth-likeness --;5.7. Quantitative Measures of Verisimilitude --;6. The Similarity Approach to TruthLikeness --;6.1. Spheres of Similarity --;6.2. Targets --;6.3. Distance on Cognitive Problems --;6.4. Closeness to the Truth --;6.5. Degrees of Truthlikeness --;6.6. Comparison with the Tichý --;Oddie Approach --;6.7. Distance between Statements --;6.8. Distance from Indefinite Truth --;6.9. Cognitive Problems with False Presuppositions --;7. Estimation of Truthlikeness --;7.1. The Epistemic Problem of Truthlikeness --;7.2. Estimated Degrees of Truthlikeness --;7.3. Probable Verisimilitude --;7.4. Errors of Observation --;7.5. Counterfactual Presuppositions and Approximate Validity --;8. Singular Statements --;8.1. Simple Qualitative Singular Statements --;8.2. Distance between State Descriptions --;8.3. Distance between Structure Descriptions --;8.4. Quantitative Singular Statements --;9. Monadic Generalizations --;9.1. Distance between Monadic Constituents --;9.2. Monadic Constituents with Identity --;9.3. Tichý --;Oddie Distances --;9.4. Existential and Universal Generalizations --;9.5. Estimation Problem for Generalizations --;10. Polyadic Theories --;10.1. Distance between Polyadic Constituents --;10.2. Complete Theories --;10.3. Distance between Possible Worlds --;10.4. First-Order Theories --;11. Legisimilitude --;11.1. Verisimilitude vs Legisimilitude --;11.2. Distance between Nomic Constituents --;11.3. Distance between Quantitative Laws --;11.4. Approximation and Idealization --;11.5. Probabilistic Laws --;12. Verisimilitude as an Epistemic Utility --;12.1. Cognitive Decision Theory --;12.2. Epistemic Utilities: Truth, Information, and Truthlikeness --;12.3. Comparison with Levi's Theory --;12.4. Theoretical and Pragmatic Preference --;12.5. Bayesian Estimation --;13. Objections Answered --;13.1. Verisimilitude as a Programme --;13.2. The Problem of Linguistic Variance --;13.3. Progress and Incommensurability --;13.4. Truthlikeness and Logical Pragmatics --;Notes --;Index of Names --;Index of Subjects.

متن يادداشت

The idea of truthlikeness fell in disrepute also as a result of the careless, often confused and metaphysically loaded way in which many philosophers used - and still use - such concepts as 'degree of truth', 'approximate truth', 'partial truth', and 'approach to the truth'.

موضوع مستند نشده

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

موضوع مستند نشده

Logic.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by Ilkka Niiniluoto.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ilkka Niiniluoto

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y