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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 547–551.
Published: 01 October 2017
... Razors: A User's Manual , Elliott Sober attempts to answer this question, revealing a fascinating variety of meanings, approaches, and justifications for arguments that purport to be about parsimony . Along the way, readers are introduced to some of the recent work on the philosophy of statistics...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 167–172.
Published: 01 January 2023
... at hand the various hypotheses are more or less parsimonious with respect to the assumptions they make about the structure of reality. Parsimony, in this context, concerns not the number of different kinds of entities that are issued to exist, but rather, the strength of assumptions about reality...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 532–536.
Published: 01 October 2022
...) and realistic sense of the appearances of metaphysical emergence, in the absence of specific reasons to think that this cannot be done” (36). In other words, Wilson does not set herself the goal of defeating the determined reductionist, who gives outsized weight to ontological parsimony, on her own terms...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 163–167.
Published: 01 January 2015
... (105, 107–9). But although this is not implausible, it is unclear what exactly justifies this principle. It might seem like a straightforward application of theoretical parsimony. But on reflection, given the existence of some representation in the brain, saying that it's conscious isn't any less...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 2010
... parsimony to be countenanced. It is tempting to respond to this worry by pointing out ways in which the ontological extravagance in question might be played down. For one, it might be noted that the extravagance here is restricted to gen- uinely possible substances. Leibniz thus needn’t...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 551–553.
Published: 01 October 2005
... of freedom, according to which the physical impossibility of doing something is a necessary condition for the unfreedom to do it. Like other supporters of this conception, he holds that, despite first appearances, this parsimonious account of constraints is sufficient to accommodate a great number of our...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 551–554.
Published: 01 October 2017
... distinct by grounding them in distinct values. And no one is denying that there are epistemic as well as moral and prudential considerations . So why collapse the corresponding values or requirements ? Parsimony is only a virtue when it comes to entities , not when it comes to concepts...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 July 2021
... metaphysics does not indulge skeptical worries about whether things are really as they seem; naive metaphysics does not appeal to abductive inferences; naive metaphysics does not fret about parsimony or ontological reduction. Foundational metaphysics, by contrast, is concerned with how things really...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 522–525.
Published: 01 July 2013
... more than the actual track record of the methodological principles we use (including parsimony principles), which we think have generally been successful—even if we can't show that they reliably track truth. Indeed, even if relationalism and substantivalism are each compatible with the evidence...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the universalism of Sider 2001 to nihilism, driven by the demand for ideological parsimony, which invites the elimination of mereological terms if possible.) 3. Indeed Sider notes that it is a substantive claim that “causation” has a metaphysical semantics in noncausal terms (117–18). 2...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 July 2003
... greater parsimony than ontologies that posit fictional characters outright, for the said reductions are committed to entities (plays, words) that belong to the ontological category that fictional characters belong to: that of contingent abstracta. To facilitate discussions of literary artworks...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (2): 197–202.
Published: 01 April 2024
... into a doctrinal principle” (A516/B544). In addition to claims about immortality and God, then, we can include claims about the parsimony of nature and the harmony between mind and world. In what follows, we focus on three other examples: doctrinal Belief in (1) the Supreme Principle of Reason, (2) the Ultimate...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 341–348.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that they involve different modalities supplying conflicting information, but that this information nevertheless yields a unitary percept. Moreover, the specific character of the unitary percept is a “parsimonious” way to reconcile the stimuli. Such integration provides evidence that perception operates...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 April 2015
... just what that something is. This is important to do, for Sidgwick's view appears no less plausible than Irwin's. It seems equally well placed to deflect worries about special moral faculties and bloated ontologies. Irwin may think that the differences between his position and the more parsimonious one...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 89–145.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of the three options. Its explicit characterization of epistemic accessibility is encouragingly simple, non-disjunctive, and parsimonious, featuring only one relation of comparative normality. 19 By contrast, both k-normality and km-normality have disjunctive characterizations of epistemic accessibility...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
... simple rules of thumb. The examples illustrate that it is often more economical, parsimonious, and informative to use a coarse-grained model, perhaps a statistical one, at a higher level of description. 30 Third, in many systems, there are robust regularities among higher-level properties. We have...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 433–468.
Published: 01 October 2005
... its trajectory. The two are metaphysically independent, though connected by natural laws that give velocity its explanatory and causal roles. A common complaint against primitivism—lodged, for example, by Arntzenius (2000, 197)—is that it fails to respect ontolog- ical parsimony. That is, it adds...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (3): 323–360.
Published: 01 July 2007
... in a parsimonious fashion. 34. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus. Ein Gespräch (Breslau, 1787). 351 ANDREW CHIGNELL Assent to Simplicity is something for which scientists and historians do...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 1–51.
Published: 01 January 2020
... certain stock virtues. It should comport ceteris paribus with commonsense intuition. Where it doesn't, it should be paired with an error theory explaining why cetera aren't paria . It should also be parsimonious in explaining the data, and its explanations should be at least as compelling as its...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 429–484.
Published: 01 October 2014
... for the sake of argument) is that we explain how practical thought is genuinely distinct from theoretical thought, so Ockham should have no objection. Parsimony aside, one might worry that we have a distinctive kind of cognitive access to what we do, and that if the positive alternative is bound...
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