Transitivity and Intransitivity in Evidential Support: Some Further Results

Review of Symbolic Logic 5 (2):259-268 (2012)
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Abstract

Igor Douven establishes several new intransitivity results concerning evidential support. I add to Douven’s very instructive discussion by establishing two further intransitivity results and a transitivity result.

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