What Makes a Scientific Theory Probably True

Stewart, Melville Y. (editor) / Swinburne, Richard (author)

Science and Religion in Dialogue ; 203-212

2010-01-08

9 pages

9781444317350 , 9781405189217

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317350.ch13

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

theory having great explanatory power ‐ in so far as it has great predictive power , enormous importance of criterion of simplicity , criteria for scientific or explanatory theory, being rendered probable by evidence , inanimate (or “scientific”) explanation , personal explanation, explaining events in terms of person, powers, purposes and beliefs , correct C‐inductive and correct P‐inductive arguments ‐ to existence of God , principles of probability spelled out in terms of Bayes's theorem , what makes a scientific theory probably true , theory, great predictive power ‐ occurrence of many diverse observed phenomena , probability of explanatory hypothesis ‐ put in formal terms with aid of probability calculus