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Leeds' Infernal Machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Henry E. Kyburg Jr.
Henry E. Kyburg Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Rochester
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 92 - 94
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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References

1 This journal, pp. 78–91.

2 Leeds claims (p. 81) that I think of the parameter θ characterizing the urn at hand as having a distribution. This is false; θ has a distribution only if it is construed as a random quantity, and then it has a distribution over a reference class—e.g., some set of urns.

3 Journal of Philosophic Logic 5, 1976, pp. 355–393.