Likelihood and Consilience: On Forster’s Counterexamples to the Likelihood Theory of Evidence
Likelihood and Consilience: On Forster’s Counterexamples to the Likelihood Theory of Evidence
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Cambridge: University of Chicago Press
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Forster presented some interesting examples having to do with distinguishing the direction of causal influence between two variables, which he argued are counterexamples to the likelihood theory of evidence. In this article, we refute Forster’s arguments by carefully examining one of the alleged counterexamples. We argue that the example is not con...
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Likelihood and Consilience: On Forster’s Counterexamples to the Likelihood Theory of Evidence
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TN_cdi_uchicagopress_journals_683342
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0031-8248
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1539-767X
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10.1086/683342
