Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

Journal | Volume | Article

235663

Contrastive confirmation

some competing accounts

Jake Chandler

pp. 129-138

Abstract

I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called ‘Law of Likelihood’ is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered.

Publication details

Published in:

Douven Igor (2013) The formal epistemology project. Synthese 190 (1).

Pages: 129-138

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9845-9

Full citation:

Chandler Jake (2013) „Contrastive confirmation: some competing accounts“. Synthese 190 (1), 129–138.