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Confirmation measures and collaborative belief updating

Ilho Park

pp. 3955-3975

Abstract

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.

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Published in:

(2014) Synthese 191 (16).

Pages: 3955-3975

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0507-1

Full citation:

Park Ilho (2014) „Confirmation measures and collaborative belief updating“. Synthese 191 (16), 3955–3975.