Quantitative Parsimony and Explanatory Power

By Alan Baker. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2003

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS OF DART-POISON FROGS AND THEIR RELATIVES (AMPHIBIA: ATHESPHATANURA: DENDROBATIDAE) (2006, background): “…as a strictly ideographic, historical science and parsimonious inference generally in the philosophy of science literature (e.g., Barnes 2000; Baker, 2003), they argued that by minimizing globally the transformation events postulated to explain the character-states of terminal taxa, equally…”
• Defining Physical Literacy for Application in Australia: A Modified Delphi Method (2019, background): “judgement, and not a reliable guide to validity (Baker, 2003; Sober, 1996).”