A verisimilitude framework for inductive inference, with an application to phylogenetics

• Main Author: Vassend, Olav B.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Inductive Inference; Phylogenetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159383
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bayesianism and likelihoodism are two of the most important frameworks philosophers of science use to analyse scientific methodology. However, both frameworks face a serious objection: much scientific inquiry takes place in highly idealized frameworks where all the hypotheses are known to be false....