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Abductively Robust Inference

Author(s)
Dellsén, Finnur 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8412
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Abstract
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) is widely criticized for being an unreliable form of ampliative inference – partly because the explanatory hypotheses we have considered at a given time may all be false, and partly because there is an asymmetry between the comparative judgment on which an IBE is based and the absolute verdict that IBE is meant to license. In this paper, I present a further reason to doubt the epistemic merits of IBE and argue that it motivates moving to an inferential pattern in which IBE emerges as a degenerate limiting case. Since this inferential pattern is structurally similar to an argumentative strategy known as Inferential Robustness Analysis (IRA), it effectively combines the most attractive features of IBE and IRA into a unified approach to non-deductive inference.
Sponsorship
Irish Research Council
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal
Analysis
Volume
77
Issue
1
Start Page
20
End Page
29
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 the Author
Keywords
  • Inference to the Best...

  • Inferential robustnes...

  • RNA world

DOI
10.1093/analys/anx049
10.1093/analys/anx049
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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