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Bootstrapping Problem

The "Bootstrapping Problem" is a confirmation-theoretic challenge in which a hypothesis appears to be confirmed by evidence that is derived solely from the hypothesis itself, thereby violating norms of evidential warrant by circularly using the content of the hypothesis as both premise and support.

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Social Life as Bootstrapped Induction

Barry Barnes · Sociology · 1983 · 299 citations

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Do infants perceive word boundaries? An empirical study of the bootstrapping of lexical acquisition

Anne Christophe, Emmanuel Dupoux, Josiane Bertoncini et al. · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1994 · 229 citations

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BOOTSTRAPPING, DEFEASIBLE REASONING, AND A PRIORI JUSTIFICATION

Stewart Cohen · Philosophical Perspectives · 2010 · 129 citations

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The Bootstrap in Econometrics

Joël L. Horowitz · Statistical Science · 2003 · 122 citations · Full text

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On nondifferentiable functions and the bootstrap

Lutz Dümbgen · Probability Theory and Related Fields · 1993 · 93 citations · Full text

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  1. SE
    Sheer El-Showk

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 104 citations

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  2. MF
    Miguel F. Paulos

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 104 citations

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  3. UH
    Ulrike Heuer

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  4. JB
    Jonathan Betz

    Google (United States), United States

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  5. OT
    Okba Tibermacine

    University of Biskra, Algeria

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    1K citations

  2. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    68 citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    81 citations

  4. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

  5. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

  6. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

  7. Samford University

    Birmingham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  8. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

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  1. Philosophy Compass

    3 publications · 122 citations

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  2. Philosophical Studies

    3 publications · 106 citations

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  3. Statistics & Probability Letters

    2 publications · 86 citations

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  4. Synthese

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  5. Journal of High Energy Physics

    JHEP · 2 publications · 117 citations

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