Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics

1. Front Matter

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2. Problems in the Methodology of Science

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Methodology and Systematic Philosophy

      • C. A. Hooker

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   3. Identity by Sense in Empirical Sciences

      • M. V. Popovich

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   4. Towards a General Semantics of Empirical Theories

      • Ryszard Wójcicki

      Pages 31-39

3. Identifiability Problems

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Identifiability and the Status of Theoretical Terms

      • Herbert A. Simon

      Pages 43-61

   3. Definability and Identifiability: Certain Problems and Hypotheses

      • V. N. Sadovsky, V. A. Smirnov

      Pages 63-80

   4. On Identifiability in Extended Domains

      • Marian Przełęcki

      Pages 81-89

   5. Prediction and Identifiability

      • Veikko Rantala

      Pages 91-102

4. Foundations of Probability and Induction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. An Argument for Comparative Probability

      • Terrence L. Fine

      Pages 105-119

   3. On the Truthlikeness of Generalizations

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto

      Pages 121-147

   4. A Third Dogma of Empiricism

      • Wesley C. Salmon

      Pages 149-166

   5. Causal Thinking in Judgment under Uncertainty

      • Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman

      Pages 167-190

5. The Concept of Randomness

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Survey of the Theory of Random Sequences

      • C. P. Schnorr

      Pages 193-211

   3. Mises Redux

      • Richard C. Jeffrey

      Pages 213-222

6. Foundational Problems in Linguistics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Foundations of Philosophical Pragmatics

      • Asa Kasher

      Pages 225-242

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, and was sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Western Ontario. As those associated closely with the work of the Division over the years know well, the work undertaken by its members varies greatly and spans a number of fields not always obviously related. In addition, the volume of work done by first rate scholars and scientists in the various fields of the Division has risen enormously. For these and related reasons it seemed to the editors chosen by the Divisional officers that the usual format of publishing the proceedings of the Congress be abandoned in favour of a somewhat more flexible, and hopefully acceptable, method of pre­ sentation. Accordingly, the work of the invited participants to the Congress has been divided into four volumes appearing in the University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. The volumes are entitled, Logic, Foundations of Mathematics and Computability Theory, Foun­ dational Problems in the Special Sciences, Basic Problems in Methodol­ ogy and Linguistics, and Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

• philosophy of science
• probability
• semantics

• The University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Robert E. Butts

• The Academy of Finland and Stanford University, Finland

  Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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