Truthlikeness is a property of a theory or a proposition that represents its closeness to the truth. We start by summarizing Niiniluoto’s (Truthlikeness, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987) proposal of ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

A classification scheme for probability laws by tail behavior is proposed. It circumvents the smoothness conditions usually imposed on the probability laws by current classification schemes and yields ...

In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...