Lutz, Sebastian (2011) On a Contrastive Criterion of Testability II: The Material Inadequacy of Contrastive Testability. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Elliott Sober has suggested his contrastive criterion of testability as an improvement over previous criteria of empirical significance like falsifiability and the standard Bayesian criterion of empirical significance. I argue that the criterion fails to meet four of the conditions of adequacy for a criterion of empirical significance that follow from Sober’s position or are presumed in his arguments. I suggest to define empirical significance as empirical non-equivalence to a tautology, because this definition does meet the conditions of adequacy. Specifically, it is equivalent to the standard Bayesian criterion of empirical significance whenever all probabilities are defined and contains falsifiability as a special case. This latter feature is important because those conditions of adequacy that apply to criteria of deductive empirical significance single out falsifiability.
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| Additional Information: | Revised second half of "On Sober's Criterion of Contrastive Testability" | ||||||
| Keywords: | testability, empirical significance, falsifiability, Bayesianism, likelihoodism, explication | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Depositing User: | Sebastian Lutz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2011 11:37 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2011 11:37 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 8575 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Date: | 10 April 2011 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8575 |
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On Sober's Criterion of Contrastive Testability. (deposited 14 Dec 2010 12:08)
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