PHL246H1 Lecture Notes - Hypothetico-Deductive Model, If And Only If, Falsifiability
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Outline: induction, probability (cid:73) hempel rejects ccc and then presents a de nition of con rmation that satis es entc, scc, cconsc. The development of a hypothesis (cid:73) the development of a hypothesis h for a set of individual constants ic is the hypothesis devic (h) that h is true for those individuals named in ic. Ic = {a, b, c}, where a is another name for ann, b another name for bob, c another name for claire, d another name for didier (and a, b, c, d are used autonymously). B logically implies the development of h for those individuals constants that occur essentially in b. B logically implies the development of h for those individuals constants that occur essentially in b. (cid:73) b = {sa ca, sb cb, sc cc, sd, fe fe} Direct con rmation (cid:73) an observation report b directly con rms a hypothesis h iff. Sa ca (cid:96) sa ca, sb cb (cid:96) sb cb,
