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Sellars’ theory of justification rests on a theory of probability wherein a reorientation is urged on us concerning the meaning of ‘probable’. To say a statement is probable, means, according to Sellars, that there is good reason for accepting the statement as true. The giving of good reasons involves practical reason and a general goal. In the context of science practical reasoning occurs in the meta-language of a theory. The goal is an explanatorily coherent theory.
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© 1981 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Pitt, J.C. (1981). Induction and Justification. In: Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change. Synthese Library, vol 151. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8482-0_3
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