Counting Experiments

Livengood, Jonathan (2017) Counting Experiments. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In this paper, I show how one might resist two influential arguments for the Likelihood Principle by appealing to the ontological significance of creative intentions. The first argument for the Likelihood Principle that I consider is the argument from intentions. After clarifying the argument, I show how the key premiss in the argument may be resisted by maintaining that creative intentions sometimes independently matter to what experiments exist. The second argument that I consider is Gandenberger’s (2015) rehabilitation of Birnbaum’s (1962) proof of the Likelihood Principle from the (supposedly) more intuitively obvious principles of conditionality and sufficiency. As with the argument from intentions, I show how Gandenberger’s argument for his Experimental Conditionality Principle may be resisted by maintaining that creative intentions sometimes independently matter to what experiments exist.

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Creators	Email	ORCID
Livengood, Jonathan	jonathan.livengood@gmail.com

Keywords:

Likelihood Principle, analytic metaphysics, experiments, evidential value, creative intentions, artifacts, abstract creationism, conditionality principle, arbitrariness

Subjects:

General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
General Issues > Experimentation
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics

Depositing User:

Dr. Jonathan Livengood

Date Deposited:

07 Dec 2017 17:27

Last Modified:

07 Dec 2017 17:27

Item ID:

14181

Official URL:

http://rdcu.be/zC5H