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Those less hostile to metaphysics than Van Fraassen will object that he has just missed Lewis's point since Lewis does not mean to be addressing the empirical problem of language-learning.
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Distinguishing it from other processes in evolution is one of major conceptual and empirical problems of evolutionary biology.
Since logical entailment does not depend on the language we use to frame evidence and hypotheses, the inductive complexity of an empirical problem as determined by the characterization theorems is language-invariant.
Our conversation concerned an empirical problem with the Eaton-Kortum model of international trade, which was the basis of the big lecture.
Rationales for not believing in any supernatural deity include the lack of empirical evidence; the problem of evil; the argument from inconsistent revelations; the rejection of concepts which cannot be falsified; and the argument from nonbelief.
Rather, learning theory pursues a context-dependent means-ends analysis: For a given empirical problem and a set of cognitive goals, what is the best method for achieving the goals?
Generally speaking problems with unfalsifiable hypotheses require something other than the conjectures-and-refutations recipe for reliable methods (this assertion hinges on what exactly one means by "falsifiable hypothesis"; see Section 3 (The Limits of Inquiry and the Complexity of Empirical Problems) as well as [Schulte and Juhl 1996]).
A more systematic account of these ideas is given by Laudan (1977): the problem-solving effectiveness of a theory is defined by the number and importance of solved empirical problems minus the number and importance of the anomalies and conceptual problems that the theory generates.
An empirical problem that arises is that different types of local area units can infer different results.
The subsequently reported information constitutes the provided empirical solution to the problem of one-step ahead forecasting in geoscience.
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