Suárez, Mauricio (2017) Propensities, Probabilities, and Experimental Statistics. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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I defend a three-fold form of pluralism about chance, involving a tripartite distinction between propensities, probabilities, and frequencies. The argument has a negative and a positive part. Negatively, I argue against the identity thesis that informs current propensity theories, which already suggests the need for a tripartite distinction. Positively, I argue that that a tripartite distinction is implicit in much statistical practice. Finally, I apply a well-known framework in the modelling literature in order to characterize these three separate concepts functionally in terms of their roles in modelling practice.
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| Additional Information: | Appeared as Chapter 27 in EPSA15 Selected Papers: The 5th Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, M. Massimi, Romeijn, J-W., and Schurz, G. (eds.), Springer, 2017, pp. 335-345. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Philosophy of Probability; Modeling and Representation; History of Philosophy of Science; Frequencies and propensities | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Prof Mauricio Suárez | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2019 03:31 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2019 03:31 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16298 | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-31... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6_27 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | 2017 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16298 |
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