A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypotheses

Author: Glymour C.1

Source: Erkenntnis, Volume 57, Number 3, 2002 , pp. 395-405(11)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Taking seriously the arguments of Earman, Roberts and Smith that ceteris paribus laws have no semantics and cannot be tested, I suggest that ceteris paribus claims have a kind of formal pragmatics, and that at least some of them can be verified or refuted in the limit.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Clark Glymour Department of Philosophy 135 Baker Hall Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 U.S.A. Email: cg09@andrew.cum.edu

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