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work_vgry7molpzbhbevvzvs4nmopbu	R. Dawid	The No Alternatives Argument	2014	37	.pdf	application/pdf	8311	1195	74	which conditions failure to find an alternative to H confirms the theory any phenomenon described by H, non-empirical evidence for H can, for example, consist in observations about the research process leading up to the (NAA).1 If valid, it would demonstrate the possibility of non-empirical theory In order to understand the problem of non-empirical theory confirmation, we The number k of possible scientific theories which can account for a certain set of data is in turn relevant for the degree of belief in the empirical the Yk, the non-empirical evidence FA confirms H under plausible conditions. In the No Alternatives Argument or NAA, the non-empirical evidence consists in the observation that scientists have not yet found an alternative to Following this line of reasoning, we reconstruct NAA based on the notion that there exists a specific but unknown number k of possible scientific	./cache/work_vgry7molpzbhbevvzvs4nmopbu.pdf	./txt/work_vgry7molpzbhbevvzvs4nmopbu.txt