Confirmation as partial entailment: A representation theorem in inductive logic

Crupi, Vincenzo und Tentori, Katya (2013): Confirmation as partial entailment: A representation theorem in inductive logic. In: Journal of Applied Logic, Bd. 11, Nr. 4: 364 - 372

Abstract

The most prominent research program in inductive logic — here just labeled The Program, for simplicity — relies on probability theory as its main building block and aims at a proper generalization of deductive-logical relations by a theory of partial entailment. We prove a representation theorem by which a class of ordinally equivalent measures of inductive support or confirmation is singled out as providing a uniquely coherent way to work out these two major sources of inspiration of The Program.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: Inductive logic
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) ; Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Logic
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 160 Logik
• ISSN: 1570-8683
• Sprache: Englisch