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Full Idea
The slogan 'Inference to the Best Explanation' may bring to mind an excessively passive picture of scientific enquiry, …but there is the feedback between hypothesis formation and data acquisition that characterises actual enquiry.
Gist of Idea
IBE is not passive treatment of data, but involves feedback between theory and data search
Source
Peter Lipton (Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd) [2004], 05 'Explanation')
Book Ref
Lipton,Peter: 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd ed)' [Routledge 2004], p.83
A Reaction
Perhaps it should be renamed 'Search for the Best Explanation'.