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«Ceteris Paribus» in Conservative Belief Revision: On the Role of Minimal Change in Rational Theory Development
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Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, Book 731
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ISBN10: 3631572832
ISBN13: 9783631572832
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 4 2009
Pages: 146
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783631572832
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 4 2009
Pages: 146
Language: English
This work contrasts conservative or minimally mutilating revisions of empirical theories as they are identified in the presently dominant AGM model of formal belief revision and the structuralist program for the reconstruction of empirical theories. The aim is to make understandable why both approaches only partly succeed in substantially informing and formally restraining the issue. With respect to the rationality of minimal change, the overall result is negative. Readers with an interest in formal epistemology are provided with application cases (mercury anomaly, revision of early thermo-dynamics, introduction of the neutrino), the historically inclined reader is offered a systematic perspective. The discussion can largely be followed without a background in formal logic.
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