| Chandler, Jake (2013): Contrastive Confirmation: Some Competing Accounts. In: Synthese, Vol. 190, No. 1: pp. 129-138 |
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Form of publication: | Postprint |
| Keywords: | Law of Likelihood; Contrastive confirmation; Bayesianism; Probability |
| Faculties: | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Science |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy |
| ISSN: | 0039-7857 |
| Language: | English |
| ID Code: | 21264 |
| Deposited On: | 11. Aug 2014 11:16 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:01 |
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