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TRANSITIVITY AND INTRANSITIVITY IN EVIDENTIAL SUPPORT: SOME FURTHER RESULTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2012

WILLIAM ROCHE
WILLIAM ROCHE*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Texas Christian University
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*DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, 2800 S. UNIVERSITY DR. FORT WORTH, TX 76129. E-mail:[email protected]
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Abstract

Igor Douven establishes several new intransitivity results concerning evidential support. I add to Douven’s very instructive discussion by establishing two further intransitivity results and a transitivity result.

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 259 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2012

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