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Discussion Note: Positive Relevance Defended
This paper addresses two examples due to Peter Achinstein purporting to show that the positive relevance view of evidence is too strong, that is, that evidence need not raise the probability of what it is evidence for. The first example can work only if it makes a false assumption. The second example fails because what Achinstein claims is evidence is redundant with information we already have. Without these examples Achinstein is left without motivation for his account of evidence, which uses the concept of explanation in addition to that of probability.
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History, Scientific Methodology, and the 'Squishy' Sciences
Love reviews Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods edited by Peter Achinstein.
Journal Article
Evidence and method: scientific strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell
This work addresses the perennial philosophical issue of evidence: how facts make a statement true or more probable. The first chapter is a highly readable account of this issue, clearly explaining its centrality to the philosophy of scientific method and practical reasoning.
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