Channels’ Confirmation and Predictions’ Confirmation: From the Medical Test to the Raven Paradox

Channels’ Confirmation and Predictions’ Confirmation: From the Medical Test to the Raven Paradox

After long arguments between positivism and falsificationism, the verification of universal hypotheses was replaced with the confirmation of uncertain major premises. Unfortunately, Hemple proposed the Raven Paradox. Then, Carnap used the increment of logical probability as the confirmation measure....

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Main Author: Chenguang Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
relative entropy
cross-entropy
uncertain reasoning
inductive logic
confirmation measure
semantic information
medical test
raven paradox
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/4/384

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