Wagner, Carl (2011) Is conditioning really incompatible with holism? [Preprint]
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Jonathan Weisberg (British J. for the Phil. of Science 60(2009), 793-812) claims, that in an interesting class of cases, probability assessments constructed by strict or Jeffrey conditioning preclude subsequent revision by after-the-fact defeaters of the reasons supporting those assessments, and that conditioning is thus "inherently anti-holistic." His analysis founders, however, in applying Jeffrey conditioning to a partition for which an essential rigidity condition clearly fails. Applied to an appropriate partition, Jeffrey conditioning is amenable to revision by after-the-fact defeaters in precisely the way that Weisberg demands.
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| Keywords: | Jeffrey conditioning, holism, defeater, rigidity | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Decision Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Carl Wagner | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2011 11:39 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2011 11:39 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 8690 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Decision Theory |
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| Date: | 28 March 2011 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8690 |
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