What is Closer-to-the-truth?: A Parade of Approaches to Truthlikeness

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Amsterdam: Rodopi (1987)
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INTRODUCTION When Karl Popper published in' his definition of closer-to-the- truth this was an important intellectual event, but not a shocking one. ...

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Verisimilitude defined by relevant consequence-elements.  (pages 47--77)G. Schurz & P. Weingartner
A structuralist approach to truthlikeness.  (pages 79--99)T. A. F. Kuipers
Verisimilitude and conditionals.  (pages 103--128)Johan van Benthem
Verisimilitude and legisimilitude.  (pages 129--144)L. J. Cohen
Theory of similarity, similarity of theories, and verisimilitude.  (pages 145--176)R. Festa

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