This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a practical argument insofar as accepting the best ...
An approach to inference to the best explanation integrating a Popperian conception of natural laws together with a modified Hempelian account of explanation, one the one hand, and Hacking's law of ...
Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) represents a central method in scientific inquiry, wherein the hypothesis that best accounts for the available evidence is provisionally accepted. This approach ...