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Likeness to Truth
Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel (1986)
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What does it take for one proposition to be closer to the truth than another. In this, the first published monograph on the topic, Oddie develops a comprehensive theory that takes the likeness in truthlikeness seriously.Author's Profile
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Oddie Graham. Likeness to truth. The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, vol. 30. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht etc. 1986, xv + 218 pp. [REVIEW]Ilkka Niiniluoto - 1989 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 54 (1):296-297.
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