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This chapter develops standards for reasonably accepting a result as stable. It is reasonable to regard a result as stable when relevant alternative hypotheses, as identified by the relevant best current scientific knowledge, have been excluded. This offers a clear sense in which evidence must clear a certain bar before it can be said to confer warrant and which it can fail to clear even when it shows that the course of action in question is the best bet.
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Broadbent, A. (2013). Stable Causal Inference. In: Philosophy of Epidemiology. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315601_5
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