My aim is to discuss (degrees of) corroboration, explanatory power, and complexity, and the relationships between them, and to suggest a new form of Ockham's razor which is applicable in particular to practical statistical problems. It will be found necessary to distinguish between two meaning
It is sometimes claimed that the Bayesian framework automatically implements Ockham's razor---that c...
Occam's razor is the idea that when two rival theories explain a phenomenon, the simpler theory is t...
Ockham’s razor is the principle that, all other things being equal, scientists ought to prefer simpl...
Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories th...
in terms of minimizing retractions en route to the truth, relative to all deterministic scientific s...
In science, one faces the problem of selecting the true theory from a range of alternative theories....
Abstract-"Ockham's Razor " is a methodological principle, due to the medi-eval philos...
Informally, Occam’s razor states, “Given two hypotheses which equally agree with the observed data, ...
This paper discusses Kevin Kelly’s recent attempt to justify Ockham’s Razor in terms of truth-findin...
‘Ockham’s razor’ has become a household name in science and medicine. It is used as a synonym for lo...
The nature of empirical simplicity and its relationship to scientific truth are long-standing puzzle...
How are we to understand the use of probability in corroboration functions? Popper says logically, b...
In science, one faces the problem of selecting the true theory from a range of al-ternative theories...
The Bayesian paradigm apparently only sometimes gives rise to Occam's Razor; at other times very lar...
How are we to understand the use of probability in Popper’s corroboration function? Popper says logi...
It is sometimes claimed that the Bayesian framework automatically implements Ockham's razor---that c...
Occam's razor is the idea that when two rival theories explain a phenomenon, the simpler theory is t...
Ockham’s razor is the principle that, all other things being equal, scientists ought to prefer simpl...
Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories th...
in terms of minimizing retractions en route to the truth, relative to all deterministic scientific s...
In science, one faces the problem of selecting the true theory from a range of alternative theories....
Abstract-"Ockham's Razor " is a methodological principle, due to the medi-eval philos...
Informally, Occam’s razor states, “Given two hypotheses which equally agree with the observed data, ...
This paper discusses Kevin Kelly’s recent attempt to justify Ockham’s Razor in terms of truth-findin...
‘Ockham’s razor’ has become a household name in science and medicine. It is used as a synonym for lo...
The nature of empirical simplicity and its relationship to scientific truth are long-standing puzzle...
How are we to understand the use of probability in corroboration functions? Popper says logically, b...
In science, one faces the problem of selecting the true theory from a range of al-ternative theories...
The Bayesian paradigm apparently only sometimes gives rise to Occam's Razor; at other times very lar...
How are we to understand the use of probability in Popper’s corroboration function? Popper says logi...
It is sometimes claimed that the Bayesian framework automatically implements Ockham's razor---that c...
Occam's razor is the idea that when two rival theories explain a phenomenon, the simpler theory is t...
Ockham’s razor is the principle that, all other things being equal, scientists ought to prefer simpl...
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