Linguistique de l’écrit

Revue internationale en libre accès

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235204

Confirmation measures and collaborative belief updating

Ilho Park

pp. 3955-3975

Résumé

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.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2014) Synthese 191 (16).

Pages: 3955-3975

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0507-1

Citation complète:

Park Ilho, 2014, Confirmation measures and collaborative belief updating. Synthese 191 (16), 3955-3975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0507-1.