Eva, Benjamin and Hartmann, Stephan (2019) On the Origins of Old Evidence. [Preprint]
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The problem of old evidence, first described by Glymour (1980), is still widely regarded as one of the most pressing foundational challenges to the Bayesian account of scientific reasoning. Many solutions have been proposed, but all of them have drawbacks and none of them is considered to be definitive. Here, we introduce and defend a new kind of solution, according to which hypotheses are confirmed when we become more confident that they provide the only way of accounting for the known evidence.
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| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Benjamin Eva | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2019 01:10 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2019 01:10 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 15778 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | 27 February 2019 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15778 |
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