expectability

After reducing the system to its parts, the next step in the standard approach to understanding, according to Kellert, is to construct a “deductive scheme, which yields a rigorous proof of the necessity (or expectability) of the situation at hand” (1993, p. 91).

Chaos Bishop, Robert 2008

Hempel's model characterizes the scientific explanation of events as a logical argument that expressed their expectability in terms of their subsumption under an empirically testable generalization.

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

For their Doric simplicity; for their plain and masculine features; for their obvious truthfulness; for their manifest probability as to fact, and expectability previously to it.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

For their Doric simplicity; for their plain and masculine features; for their obvious truthfulness; for their manifest probability as to fact, and expectability previously to it.

Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

Stated more generally, both the DN and IS models, share the common idea that, as Salmon (1989) puts it, “the essence of scientific explanation can be described as nomic expectability ” that is expectability on the basis of lawful connections” (1989, p. 57).

Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

For example, as noted above, the DN model connects understanding with the provision of information about nomic expectability ” the idea is that understanding why an outcome occurs is a matter of seeing that it was to be expected on the basis of a law.

Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009