Transitivity and Intransitivity in Evidential Support: Some Further Results

William Roche

Transitivity and Intransitivity in Evidential Support: Some Further Results

Review of Symbolic Logic 5 (2):259-268 (2012)

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Abstract

Igor Douven establishes several new intransitivity results concerning evidential support. I add to Douven’s very instructive discussion by establishing two further intransitivity results and a transitivity result.

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Closure Douven Evidential support Transitivity Transmission

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Paradoxes in Logic and Philosophy of Logic

Probabilistic Principles, Misc in Philosophy of Probability

Probabilistic Puzzles in Philosophy of Probability

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10.1017/s1755020311000414

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(Anti-)Sceptics Simple and Subtle: G. E. Moore and John McDowell.Wright, Crispin

Some Reflections on the Acquisition of Warrant by Inference.Wright, C.

Wright, Okasha and Chandler on Transmission Failure.Moretti, Luca

Probabilistic Causality and the Question of Transitivity.Eells, Ellery & Sober, Elliott

A Weaker Condition for Transitivity in Probabilistic Support.Roche, William A.

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Evidence of Evidence is Evidence Under Screening-Off.Roche, William

Dwindling Confirmation.Roche, William & Shogenji, Tomoji

Confirmation, Transitivity, and Moore: The Screening-Off Approach.Roche, William & Shogenji, Tomoji

Is Evidence of Evidence Evidence? Screening-Off Vs. No-Defeaters.William, Roche

Confirmation, Transitivity, and Moore: The Screening-Off Approach.Roche, William & Shogenji, Tomoji

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