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.

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

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

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

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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

Evidential Support, Transitivity, and Screening-Off.Roche, William

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

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