INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND THE BAD LOT OBJECTION

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EATEMAD ESLAMI BAKHTIARI SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI; MOUSAVI KARIMI MIR SAEID

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Journal: Journal of Existence and Knowledge Year:2015 | Volume:2 | Issue:2 Page(s): 111-130

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INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND THE BAD LOT OBJECTION

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EATEMAD ESLAMI BAKHTIARI SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI | MOUSAVI KARIMI MIR SAEID | Issue Writer Certificate

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IBEQ2

THE BAD LOT OBJECTIONQ2

BAYESQ1

A PAIR OF CONTRADICTORIESQ2

SELF-DESTRUCTIONQ2

MATERIAL CONTENTQ2

FORMQ2

Abstract

According to Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE), the hypothesis that provides the best explanation for a group of observed phenomena is probably true. One of the key objections against this line of thought is “the bad lot objection”. According to this objection, the idea that the best of available explanatory hypotheses will be more likely to be true presupposes that the truth is already more likely to be found among them. But we have no reason to believe it. The most prominent criticisms against this objection are argument from BAYESianism (Niiniluoto, 2004), argument from A PAIR OF CONTRADICTORIES (Lipton, 1993), argument from SELF-DESTRUCTION (Lipton, 1993) and argument from distinction between MATERIAL CONTENT and FORM of IBE (Schupbach, 2013). In this paper, we evaluate these arguments and show that all the arguments but the last one misses the mark.

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EATEMAD ESLAMI BAKHTIARI, SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI, & MOUSAVI KARIMI, MIR SAEID. (2015). INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND THE BAD LOT OBJECTION. JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, 2(2 ), 111-130. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/262824/en

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EATEMAD ESLAMI BAKHTIARI SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI, MOUSAVI KARIMI MIR SAEID. INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND THE BAD LOT OBJECTION. JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE[Internet]. 2015;2(2 ):111-130. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/262824/en

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SEYED MOHAMMAD MAHDI EATEMAD ESLAMI BAKHTIARI, and MIR SAEID MOUSAVI KARIMI, “INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION AND THE BAD LOT OBJECTION,” JOURNAL OF EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, vol. 2, no. 2 , pp. 111–130, 2015, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/262824/en

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