Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics

Abduction, Bayesianism and Best Explanations in Physics

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This article claims the validity of abductive reasoning, or inference to the best explanation, as a practice of discovery of explanatory scientific hypotheses.Along the building toys way to achieve this objective I present here a series of arguments that question the feasibility of Bayesianism as a theory of scientific confirmation.Having solved this issue, I resort to an episode of contemporary astrocosmology that I interpret as an eloquent example of the effectiveness of abductive methodology in Mommy contemporary theoretical physics.