# Lipton 2004: Inference to the Best Explanation

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# Inference to the Best Explanation

Peter Lipton, 2004. _Routledge_.

Second edition of Lipton's book on inference to the best explanation, the view that we accept the hypothesis that would best explain the evidence, enlarged with a chapter on how this relates to Bayesian reasoning.

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The inquiry-framework report uses its idea of the 'loveliest' explanation (scope, precision, mechanism, unification), applied only among hypotheses still standing.

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Lipton, P. (2004). Inference to the Best Explanation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203470855
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