Probabilistic Confirmation is a formal theory of confirmation that employs probability functions to measure the degree to which evidence incrementally supports a hypothesis, distinguishing itself from qualitative accounts by representing confirmation as a quantitative relation grounded in probabilistic dependence.
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Why Propensities Cannot be Probabilities
Paul Humphreys · The Philosophical Review · 1985 · 209 citations
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