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What is the “Equal Weight View”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2012

David Jehle  and
Branden Fitelson
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate various possible (Bayesian) precisifications of the (somewhat vague) statements of “the equal weight view” (EWV) that have appeared in the recent literature on disagreement. We will show that the renditions of (EWV) that immediately suggest themselves are untenable from a Bayesian point of view. In the end, we will propose some tenable (but not necessarily desirable) interpretations of (EWV). Our aim here will not be to defend any particular Bayesian precisification of (EWV), but rather to raise awareness about some of the difficulties inherent in formulating such precisifications.

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Research Article
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Episteme , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , October 2009 , pp. 280 - 293
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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