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Old Evidence and New Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

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

Jeffrey has devised a probability revision method that increases the probability of hypothesis H when it is discovered that H implies previously known evidence E. A natural extension of Jeffrey's method likewise increases the probability of H when E has been established with sufficiently high probability and it is then discovered, quite apart from this, that H confers sufficiently higher probability on E than does its logical negation H̄.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 677 - 691
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1997

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Footnotes

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Research supported by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9528893).

To Keith Lehrer on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday

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