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Lindy’s Law and the Longevity of Scientific Theories
Philosophies 10 (5):106 (2025)
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This work aims to summarize the history and mutations of Lindy’s Law (or the Lindy Effect)—a mathematical distribution that originated from television commentary—and to first test this principle in the context of a recent new iteration: Lindy’s Law as a proxy to describe the significance of longevity as a factor in the retention of scientific theories.Other Versions
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