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Direct Inference and Confirmational Conditionalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Isaac Levi
Isaac Levi*
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Department of Philosophy Columbia University
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Abstract

The article responds to some of the points raised by B. van Fraassen concerning probability kinematics and direct inference within the framework of the approach to the revision of probability judgment proposed by Levi in The Enterprise of Knowledge. In particular, the critical importance of the question of direct inference is emphasized and explained.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , December 1981, pp. 532 - 552
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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