Qualitative confirmation and the ravens paradox
Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 83 (1):89-108 (2005)
| Abstract | In From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism Theo Kuipers presents a theory of qualitative confirmation that is supposed to not assume the existence of quantitative probabilities. He claims that this theory is able to resolve some paradoxes in confirmation theory, including the ravens paradox. This paper shows that there are flaws in Kuipers' qualitative confirmation theory and in his application of it to the ravens paradox. | |||||||||
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