Ordinal Conditional Functions: A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic States

作者: Wolfgang Spohn

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7_6

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摘要: Many of the philosophically most interesting notions are overtly or covertly epistemological. Overtly epistemological are, course, concept belief itself, subjective probability, and, presumably important, a reason in sense theoretical for believing something. Covertly much more difficult to understand; maybe, they not at all. However, very promising strategy understanding them is try conceive as One such notion objective probability;1 explanation another. A third, important one causation, which has been epistemologically problematic ever since Hume. Finally, there truth. philosophers believe that be said coherence theory truth internal realism; hold some version claim something it impossible get true cannot true, and therefore

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