It is widely accepted that scientific theories should be simple, have inductive support and high empirical content, while other theories should be accurate and have high explanatory power. This book argues that these features can all be reduced to a single feature - the independence of theory from data. It also argues that theories possessing this feature are more likely to be true than those that don't.
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978-1-85628-220-8 (9781856282208)
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Criteria of adequacy for a theory of rationality; truth and the explanation of the success of science; the independence of theory from data; can independence function as a viable notion of confirmation?; scientific method and the independence of theory from data; some historical examples; common-sense and the independence of theory from data.