10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERINSTANCE»
Discover the use of
counterinstance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
counterinstance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Philosophy of Miracles
We may now, following Ninian Smart (1964: 37) and Richard Swinburne (1970:
26), understand a violation as a nonrepeatable counterinstance to natural law.
We encounter a nonrepeatable counterinstance when someone walks on water,
...
2
Acts of God: An Essay on Miracles
We may now, following Ninian Smart (1964:37) and Richard Swinburne (1970:26
), understand a violation as a nonrepeatable counterin- stance to natural law. We
encounter a nonrepeatable counterinstance when someone walks on water, ...
3
Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise: A Veritistic Interpretation
In a philosopher, one who recognizes that this is a counterinstance to the
Principle, this recognition defeats the justification of the Principle, so that the
Principle ceases to be overall justified. For the same reason, it defeats (1), which
also ...
Frederick F. Schmitt, 2014
4
Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today
Thus, I regard the reported counterinstance to L as spurious, since it would be
inconsistent to continue to accept L as a universal law and also admit that it has a
counterinstance." In other words, our decision to retain L as a law of nature ...
Jeff Jordan, Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1996
5
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Why, then, does BAA seem so plausible? how can it be that it seems like we have
a counterinstance, and yet this is not significantly disconfirmatory of the theory?
on the face of it this is very hard to understand. one explanation is that there are ...
6
The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The ...
Inthe case where we have anapparent counterinstance to an acceptedlaw of
nature, itis always possible thatit is the second typeof counterinstance that has
occurred, and thus thatwedo not havean exceptionto agenuine law of nature.
Richard ...
7
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
It is always possible that tomorrow a counterinstance may be found.At no time isit
possible toarriveat complete verification ofa law. Infact,we should not speakof “
verification”atall—if by theword we mean a definitive establishment of truth—but ...
8
The Wholeness of Nature
In this way he accommodated what would otherwise be a counterinstance.93
Similarly, we saw with Galileo that all the empirical evidence provided
counterinstances to the proposal that the Earth moves. But instead of rejecting
this theory, ...
9
Analysis and Science in Aristotle: New Essays on Auto/Biography
Consider for example my previous assertion that finding a counterinstance is
incompatible with the meaning of "B belongs to all of A." Why is it incompatible?
First, a counterinstance would be an instance of A, say C, to which B does not
belong ...
10
History and the Christian Historian
I believe that Richard Swinburne is correct in his contention that we decide
whether or not this is the situation by determining whether the counterinstance is
a repeatable or unrepeatable instance.4*1 In a case where the counterinstance
is ...
