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29Comparative. Let C be the full set of S’s comparative judgments over B × B. The innaccuracy of C at a world w is given by the number of incorrect judgments in C at w
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7David Howie: Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century (review)Philosophy of Science 70 (3): 643-646. 2003.
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25Review of Richard Jeffrey, Subjective Probability: The Real Thing (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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106Think of confirmation in the context of the Ravens Paradox this way. The likelihood ratio measure of incremental confirmation gives us, for an observed Black Raven and for an observed non-Black non-Raven, respectively, the following “full” likelihood ratios
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573 Contrastive BayesiansimIn Martijn Blaauw (ed.), Contrastivism in philosophy, Routledge/taylor & Francis Group. pp. 39--64. 2013.
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44– Foundation: Probabilistic Confirmation (c) from a Logical POV ∗ cph, eq as a “relevant” quantitative generalization of pe hq ∗ cph, eq, so understood, is not Prpe hq or Prph | eq, etc. ∗ cph, eq is something akin (ordinally) to the likelihood ratio..
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85Knowledge, Scepticism, and Defeat: Themes from Klein (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This is a collection of new essays written in honor of the work of Peter D. Klein, who has had and continues to have a tremendous influence in the development of epistemology. The essays reflect the breadth and depth of Klein’s work by engaging directly with his views and with the views of his interlocutors.
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92Wayne, Horwich, and evidential diversityPhilosophy of Science 63 (4): 652-660. 1996.Wayne (1995) critiques the Bayesian explication of the confirmational significance of evidential diversity (CSED) offered by Horwich (1982). Presently, I argue that Wayne’s reconstruction of Horwich’s account of CSED is uncharitable. As a result, Wayne’s criticisms ultimately present no real problem for Horwich. I try to provide a more faithful and charitable rendition of Horwich’s account of CSED. Unfortunately, even when Horwich’s approach is charitably reconstructed, it is still not completely s…Read more
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