Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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چکیده

It seems like we care about at least two features of our credence function: gradational-accuracy (high credences in truths, low falsehoods) and verisimilitude (investing higher worlds that are more similar to the actual world). Accuracy-first epistemology requires one feature gradational-accuracy. So if you want be a verisimilitude-valuing accuracy-firster, must able think value as somehow built into Can this done? In recent article, Oddie has argued it cannot, accuracy measure proper. I argue can.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0007-0882', '1464-3537']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz032