Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude (Against Miller’s Translation Invariance Demand)
Conceptual Dependence of Verisimilitude (Against Miller’s Translation Invariance Demand)

Summary/Abstract: The problem of verisimilitude (or more properly: truthlikeness) is, no doubt, one of the fundamental problems in the philosophy of science. As Popper noticed, scientific theories are not true (or rather false) simpliciter but they are in some distance from the truth, the actual state-of-affairs. Thus the ability to determine (to count) exactly the likeness to truth of this or that theory is really important, for otherwise we will not be sure which theory is better than another one or which theory is to be improved in order to be closer to the truth, etc. In his “O jazykovej závislosti niektorých ocenení pravdeblízkosti” (Taliga 2007), Miloš Taliga shows that logicians’ proposals concerning the method of verisimilitude counting have been under David Miller’s heavy attack for more than thirty years.

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