Confirmation and the ordinal equivalence thesis

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Vassend, Olav B.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2021
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Philosophy; Bayesian Confirmation; Measurement Theory
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148744

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...