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Old Evidence and New Explanation II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Carl G. Wagner
Carl G. Wagner*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Tennessee
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Abstract

Additional results are reported on the author's earlier generalization of Richard Jeffrey's solution to the problem of old evidence and new explanation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 283 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of Mathematics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1300.

‡

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9528893).

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