Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

It seems like we care about at least two features of our credence function: gradational-accuracy (high credences in truths, low credences in falsehoods) and verisimilitude (in-vesting higher credence in worlds that are more similar to the actual world). Accuracy-first epistemology requires that we c...

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Main Author: Schoenfield, Miriam (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-03-17T14:23:52Z.
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