Terence Hutchison and the introduction of Popper's falsifiability criterion to economics

Hart, John

doi:10.1080/1350178x.2011.628043

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“…Among the scientific methods, Occam's razor is not considered as an irrefutable existence [27][28][29]; the preference for simplicity is based on the falsifiability criterion [30,31]. For each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, although there is always a number of possible and more complex alternatives, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones since they are better testable and falsifiable.…”

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Case-Based FCTF Reasoning System

Zhang

Li³

et al. 2015

Applied Sciences

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Case-based reasoning uses old information to infer the answer of new problems. In case-based reasoning, a reasoner firstly records the previous cases, then searches the previous case list that is similar to the current one and uses that to solve the new case. Case-based reasoning means adapting old solving solutions to new situations. This paper proposes a reasoning system based on the case-based reasoning method. To begin, we show the theoretical structure and algorithm of from coarse to fine (FCTF) reasoning system, and then demonstrate that it is possible to successfully learn and reason new information. Finally, we use our system to predict practical weather conditions based on previous ones and experiments show that the prediction accuracy increases with further learning of the FCTF reasoning system.

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