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    Predictive success alone is insufficient as philosophical... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Friedman's own methodology in 'Essays in Positive Economics' invokes predictive success as a criterion, demonstrating economists already implicitly accept philosophical standards of empirical evaluation.

    Predictive success alone is insufficient as philosophical criterion—it lacks guidance on model selection, statistical significance thresholds, and trade-offs with explanatory power.

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    Key Terms

    Philosophical criterion(The statement applies a philosophical standard to evaluate the classification system.)
    A standard or rule that philosophers use to judge whether an idea, definition, or system is correct or good.
    Trade-offs(as used in decision-making)
    Situations where you have to accept something bad or give up something good in order to achieve something else you want.
    explanatory power(Socratic definition)
    The capacity of a defining feature to explain why instances of the thing defined have that property (e.g., why reverent people or actions are reverent).
    model selection(as used in philosophy of science)
    The challenge of choosing between different ways of explaining or representing how something works, when multiple explanations seem to fit the facts equally well.

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    predictive success(Second root of virtuous predictivism)
    The empirical demonstration that the entailed consequence N is true
    statistical significance(Experimenting abilities in critical thinking)
    A concept distinct from importance, relevant to evaluating experimental results

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