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Critical Notice: Patrick Suppes' Probabilistic Metaphysics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
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In the introduction to Probabilistic Metaphysics (1984), Patrick Suppes declares his intention to refute each of five central tenets of “neotraditional metaphysics”. These tenets run as follows:
(1) The future is determined by the past.
(2) Every event has a sufficient determinant cause.
(3) Knowledge must be grounded in certainty.
(4) Scientific knowledge can in principle be made complete.
(5) Scientific knowledge and method can in principle be unified.
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