Atkinson, David and Peijnenburg, Jeanne and Kuipers, Theo (2007) How to Confirm the Disconfirmed. On conjunction fallacies and robust confirmation. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Can some evidence confirm a conjunction of two hypotheses more than it confirms either of the hypotheses separately? We show that it can, moreover under conditions that are the same for nine different measures of confirmation. Further we demonstrate that it is even possible for the conjunction of two disconfirmed hypotheses to be confirmed by the same evidence.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Atkinson, David Peijnenburg, Jeanne Kuipers, Theo
Keywords:	Probability, confirmation, conjunction fallacy.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Depositing User:	David Atkinson
Date Deposited:	23 Dec 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	3754
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Date:	December 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3754

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