Synthese

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Contrastive confirmation: some competing accounts

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Abstract

I outline four competing probabilistic accounts of contrastive evidential support and consider various considerations that might help arbitrate between these. The upshot of the discussion is that the so-called ‘Law of Likelihood’ is to be preferred to any of the alternatives considered.

Keywords

Law of Likelihood Contrastive confirmation Bayesianism Probability 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Center for Logic and Analytic Philosophy, HIW, KU LeuvenLeuvenBelgium

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