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A New Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence

Hartmann, Stephan (2014) A New Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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The Problem of Old Evidence has troubled Bayesians ever since Clark Glymour first presented it in 1980. Several solutions have been proposed, but all of them have drawbacks and none of them is considered to be the definite solution. In this article, I propose a new solution which combines several old ideas with a new one. It circumvents the crucial omniscience problem in an elegant way and leads to a considerable confirmation of the hypothesis in question.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
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Hartmann, Stephans.hartmann@lmu.de0000-0001-8676-2177
Keywords: Problem of Old Evidence, Bayesianism
Subjects: General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User: Stephan Hartmann
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2014 20:40
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2024 18:00
Item ID: 10887
Subjects: General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date: 20 July 2014
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10887

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