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Glymour on Evidential Relevance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

David Christensen
David Christensen*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, UCLA
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Abstract

Glymour's “bootstrap” account of confirmation is designed to provide an analysis of evidential relevance, which has been a serious problem for hypothetico-deductivism. As set out in Theory and Evidence, however, the “bootstrap” condition allows confirmation in clear cases of evidential irrelevance. The difficulties with Glymour's account seem to be due to a basic feature which it shares with hypothetico-deductive accounts, and which may explain why neither can give a satisfactory analysis of evidential relevance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 471 - 481
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1983

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Paul Horwich, an anonymous referee, and especially Richard Healey for helpful discussions and/or comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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