Quels critères pour déterminer la "meilleure" explication scientifique?

Authors
Publication date 2017
Journal Tranel
Volume | Issue number 65
Pages (from-to) 79-88
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract In justifying their choice of the 'best' scientific explanation from a number of candidate explanations, scientists may employ specific theoretical virtues and other criteria for good scientific theories. This paper is aimed at providing an inventory of such criteria and at analyzing how they function argumentatively by indicating their systematic place within the pattern of argumentation based on abduction.
Document type Article
Language French
Published at http://www.unine.ch/files/live/sites/tranel/files/Tranel/65/79-88_Wagemans_def.pdf
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