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Niiniluoto (2003) has offered an incisive and comprehensive review of the recent debates about abduction. There is little on which I disagree with him. So, in this commentary, I shall try to cast some doubts to the attempts to render Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) within a Bayesian framework.
Many thanks to Ilkka Niiniluoto, Peter Lipton, Maria-Carla Galavotti and the participants of Workshop “ Introduction and Deduction in the Sciences” for many useful comments on an earlier draft.
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Psillos, S. (2004). Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism. In: Stadler, F. (eds) Induction and Deduction in the Sciences. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2196-1_6
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