Independent Tests and the Log‐Likelihood‐Ratio Measure of Confirmation

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3 (2):124-135 (2014)
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I shall offer some very plausible assumptions for the measure of confirmation and show that they imply that E confirms H relative to background K to degree f/PK), where f is a strictly increasing function. An additional assumption about how measures of confirmation combine then makes f be proportional to a logarithm

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