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(1992) Synthese 90 (2).

Predicting the unpredictable

S. L. Zabell

pp. 205-232

A major difficulty for currently existing theories of inductive inference involves the question of what to do when novel, unknown, or previously unsuspected phenomena occur. In this paper one particular instance of this difficulty is considered, the so-called sampling of species problem.

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DOI: 10.1007/BF00485351

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Zabell, S. L. (1992). Predicting the unpredictable. Synthese 90 (2), pp. 205-232.

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