Allocating confirmation with derivational robustness

• Autores: Aki Lehtinen
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 173, Nº. 9, 2016, págs. 2487-2509
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Robustness may increase the degree to which the robust result is indirectly confirmed if it is shown to depend on confirmed rather than disconfirmed assumptions. Although increasing the weight with which existing evidence indirectly confirms it in such a case, robustness may also be irrelevant for confirmation, or may even disconfirm. Whether or not it confirms depends on the available data and on what other results have already been established.