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Acceptance and rejection of hypotheses was considered from the perspective of error probabilities in Chapter 10. In this chapter, another approach, based on so-called ‘epistemic utilities’, will be canvassed.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1977). Cognitive Decisions. In: Inference, Method and Decision. Synthese Library, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1237-9_12
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