The Web of Belief
By P. Helm. 2003
317 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Philosophy
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3a0739d39ad14679cd7ed00cece59aef5725cba8
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Citations in the corpus
- The ‘Social Gap’ in Wind Farm Siting Decisions: Explanations and Policy Responses (2005, background): “Any information provided by developers or ‘independent’ experts will be evaluated and understood in the context of each individual’s existing ‘web of beliefs’ (Quine & Ullian, 1970).”
- The Instrumental Value of Explanations (2011, background): “Curiosity thus has survival value, despite having killed a cat’ (Quine and Ullian 1970).”
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic (2005, background): “In Russell's development of logicism, the proper analogue of Frege's theorem is this proof of the Dedekind infinity of the Russell-numbers.25 Russell's analysis end p.160 shares with Dedekind's a reliance on an assumption regarding the infinity of a set of objects not internal to arithmetic.”
- Two Strategies for Inductive Reasoning in Organizational Research (2010, background): “Some philosophers have argued that the potential of a theoretical explanation to answer open questions or create new ones—interestingness—is in fact a key consideration in the very justification of inductive arguments (Lipton, 2004; Quine & Ullian, 1970; Sellars, 1956).”
- Vocabulary harmonisation for biometrics: the development of ISO/IEC 2382 Part 37 (2014, background): “We should not expect that common, everyday language would be perfectly formed to re fl ect the current paradigms or concept clusters of any group within a discipline [26].”
- Permission to Believe (2014, background): “6 See, for example, Quine and Ulian (1970), BonJour (1985) and Elgin (1996).”
- Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? squaring theory and evidence (2005, background): “for this view of the center is a web of belief ( Quine & Ullian, 1970 ).”