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A Kuhnian defence of inference to the best explanation

机译:库恩式推理的最佳解释

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According to inference to the best explanation (IBE), scientists infer the loveliest of competing hypotheses, 'loveliness' being explanatory virtue. This generates two key objections: that loveliness is too subjective to guide inference, and that it is no guide to truth. I defend IBE using Thomas Kuhn's notion of exemplars: the scientific theories, or applications thereof, that define Kuhnian normal science and facilitate puzzle-solving. I claim that scientists infer the explanatory puzzle-solution that best meets the standard set by the relevant exemplar of loveliness. Exemplars are the subject of consensus, eliminating subjectivity; divorced from Kuhnian relativism, they give loveliness the context-sensitivity required to be truth-tropic. The resulting account, 'Kuhnian IBE', is independently plausible and offers a partial rapprochement between IBE and Kuhn's account of science.
机译:根据对最佳解释(IBE)的推断,科学家推断出竞争假设中最可爱的一种,“可爱”是解释性的美德。这产生了两个主要的反对意见:爱太过主观,无法指导推理,而它却不能指导真理。我使用托马斯·库恩(Thomas Kuhn)的范本概念为国际教育局辩护:科学理论或其应用定义了库恩的正常科学并促进了难题的解决。我声称科学家推断出最能满足相关可爱范例所设定标准的解释性难题解决方案。范例是共识的主题,消除了主观性;与库恩主义的相对主义背道而驰,他们给爱情带来了以真理为中心的情境敏感性。由此产生的账户“库恩IBE”是独立合理的,并在IBE和库恩的科学账户之间提供了部分和解。

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