Jantzen, Benjamin (2010) Piecewise Versus Total Support: How to Deal with Background Information in Likelihood Arguments. [Preprint]

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Abstract

According to the dominant interpretation of the likelihood approach to hypothesis ranking, likelihoods are supposed to be conditioned on the available background information. In doing so, background information about the manner in which evidence was obtained can obliterate the value of that evidence for discriminating amongst hypotheses. I argue that this interpretation conflates two distinct questions concerning the support offered by evidence, and derive appropriate expressions for addressing each.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Jantzen, Benjamin
Additional Information:	Comments welcome.
Keywords:	likelihood, fine-tuning, background information, observation selection effect, total evidence
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Science and Religion
Depositing User:	Benjamin Jantzen
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2010
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2012 04:52
Item ID:	5528
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Science and Religion
Date:	August 2010
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5528

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