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work_t2flu3beqnfona6pvao5xdsg7u	Alexander Bird	Eliminative abduction: examples from medicine	2010	17	.pdf	application/pdf	9801	573	59	Peter Lipton argues that inference to the best explanation (IBE) involves the selection of a hypothesis on the basis of its loveliness. a cause of puerperal fever better illustrates Holmesian inference than Liptonian IBE. keywords inference to the best explanation, Peter Lipton, abduction; Holmesian inference; eliminative induction. Many, probably most, scientific realists believe that inference to the best explanation (IBE), broadly construed, is at the heart of science. Lipton's Inference to the Best Explanation seems truly to be a Kuhnian paradigm in the philosophy of science. Those hypotheses, construed as potential explanations of the difference between the two wards, are simply inconsistent With respect to hypotheses (S4) and (S5) Semmelweis pursued the policy of seeking to eliminate the differences between the wards referred to in a given hypothesis. In Lipton's model of inference to the best explanation, the loveliness of the hypotheses is central to their epistemic status: the rank order of their epistemic credibility should follow the rank order of their explanatory loveliness.	./cache/work_t2flu3beqnfona6pvao5xdsg7u.pdf	./txt/work_t2flu3beqnfona6pvao5xdsg7u.txt