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IBE AND EBI: ON EXPLANATION BEFORE INFERENCE

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Author

Editor

  • Johannes Persson
  • Petri Ylikoski

Summary, in English

Inference to the best explanation (IBE) is theoretically interesting in that it promises to throw new light on what an explanation is. IBE challenges the standard view of the relation between inference and explanation. But sometimes it seems that previous explanation is more independent of inference than IBE suggests. Sometimes we have explanation before inference (EBI) which is not IBE. This chapter examines the possibility that the latter is the rule rather than the exception.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Publication/Series

Rethinking Explanation

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • inference to the best explanation
  • abduction
  • theory of explanation

Status

Published