by Wesley C. Salmon
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7411-6 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5225-1
Library of Congress Classification Q175.S2342
Dewey Decimal Classification 501.5195

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
According to modern physics, many objectively improbable events actually occur, such as the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive atoms. Because of high levels of improbability, scientists are often at a loss to explain such phenomena. In this main essay of this book, Wesley Salmon offers a solution to scientific explanation based on the concept of statistical relevance (the S-R model). In this vein, the other two essays herein discuss “Statistical Relevance vs. Statistical Inference,” and “Explanation and Information.”