Confirmation measures and collaborative belief updating

• Autores: Ilho Park
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 191, Nº. 16, 2014, págs. 3955-3975
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There are some candidates that have been thought to measure the degree to which evidence incrementally confirms a hypothesis. This paper provides an argument for one candidate�the log-likelihood ratio measure. For this purpose, I will suggest a plausible requirement that I call the Requirement of Collaboration. And then, it will be shown that, of various candidates, only the log-likelihood ratio measure l satisfies this requirement. Using this result, Jeffrey conditionalization will be reformulated so as to disclose explicitly what determines new credences after experience.