Confirmation and the ordinal equivalence thesis

• Main Author: Vassend, Olav B.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Bayesian Confirmation; Measurement Theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148744
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

According to a widespread but implicit thesis in Bayesian confirmation theory, two confirmation measures are considered equivalent if they are ordinally equivalent—call this the “ordinal equivalence thesis” (OET). I argue that adopting OET has significant costs. First, adopting OET renders one incap...