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- Title
Reichenbach's best alternative account to the problem of induction.
- Authors
Schurz, Gerhard
- Abstract
In this paper Reichenbach's best alternative account (BAA) to induction is examined. In the first section, three versions of the BAA are distinguished that have been discussed in the literature. The major objections against all three versions are presented. In the second section it is shown by a text analysis that Reichenbach (The theory of probability, University of California Press, California, 1949) argues for all three versions of the BAA and does not sufficiently distinguish between them. In the third section it is explained how Reichenbach's third version of the BAA can be transformed into a provable optimality theorem within the account of meta-induction.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; UNIVERSITY of California Press; PROBABILITY theory; MATHEMATICAL induction
- Publication
Synthese, 2021, Vol 199, Issue 3/4, p10827
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-021-03269-3