Contrastive confirmation: some competing accounts
I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called 'Law of Likelihood' is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered.
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Veröffentlicht in: | Synthese (Dordrecht) 2013-01, Vol.190 (1), p.129-138 |
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Zusammenfassung: | I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called 'Law of Likelihood' is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered. |
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ISSN: | 0039-7857 1573-0964 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-010-9845-9 |