Scoring Imprecise Credences: A Mildly Immodest Proposal
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Scoring imprecise credences: A mildly immodest proposal
Jim Joyce argues for two amendments to probabilism. The first is the doctrine that credences are rational, or not, in virtue of their accuracy or “closeness to the truth” (1998). The second is a shift from a numerically precise model of belief to an imprecise model represented by a set of probability functions (2010). We argue that both amendments cannot be satisfied simultaneously. To do so, w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0031-8205
DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12256