Abduction in Observational and in Theoretical Sciences. Some Examples of IBE in Palaeontology and in Cosmology

Contrary to the view maintained by many philosophers that science employs the deductive testing of hypotheses, observational natural sciences such as paleoanthropology and the earth sciences apply a scientific methodology consisting in the proposal of hypotheses which are best fitted to the availabl...

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Main Author: Andrés Rivadulla Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2015-09-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/50060