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- Title
Evidential Diversity and the Triangulation of Phenomena.
- Authors
Kuorikoski, Jaakko; Marchionni, Caterina
- Abstract
The article argues for the epistemic rationale of triangulation, namely, the use of multiple and independent sources of evidence. It claims that triangulation is to be understood as causal reasoning from data to phenomenon, and it rationalizes its epistemic value in terms of controlling for likely errors and biases of particular data-generating procedures. This perspective is employed to address objections against triangulation concerning the fallibility and scope of the inference, as well as problems of independence, incomparability, and discordance of evidence. The debate on the existence of social preferences is used as an illustrative case.
- Subjects
TRIANGULATION; EPISTEMICS; REASONING; PHILOSOPHY of nature; FALLIBILITY
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 2016, Vol 83, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/684960