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Indeterminism and Epistemic Relativization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon*
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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Abstract

Carl G. Hempel's doctrine of essential epistemic relativization of inductive-statistical explanation seems to entail the unintelligibility of the notion of objective homogeneity of reference classes. This discussion note explores the question of whether, as a consequence, essential epistemic relativization also entails the unintelligibility of the doctrine of indeterminism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 1977 , pp. 199 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I should like to express my gratitude to the National Science Foundation for support of research on scientific explanation.

References

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