Verisimilitude: views and reviews

1 January 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in History and Philosophy of Logic

Vol. 10 (2) , 181-201
https://doi.org/10.1080/014453408908837149

Abstract

This paper is both a survey and a review of the current state of the debate concerning verisimilitude. As a survey it is intended for the interested outsider who wants both easy access to and some comparison between the respective approaches. As a review it covers the first three books on the topic: those of Oddie. Niiniluoto and Kuipers.

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