The variety-of-evidence thesis: a Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1607-5zbMATH Open1475.62070OpenAlexW2766895027MaRDI QIDQ2053363FDOQ2053363

Authors: François Claveau, Olivier Grenier 

Publication date: 29 November 2021

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14086/1/VoE_thesis_Synthese.pdf

Recommendations

• Variety of evidence and the elimination of hypotheses
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2019841
• An impossibility theorem for amalgamating evidence
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 846108
• Bayesian confirmation or ordinary confirmation?

zbMATH Keywords

robustnesstriangulationBayesian epistemologyevidence amalgamationevidence independenceevidence variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

Cites Work

• Causality. Models, reasoning, and inference
• Bayesian epistemology.

Cited In (7)

• A stochastic model of mathematics and science
• Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince
• Reliability: an introduction
• Robustness analysis as explanatory reasoning
• Undesigned coincidences and coherence for an hypothesis
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Variety of evidence and the elimination of hypotheses

Uses Software

• data.table
• gRain
• plot3D

This page was built for publication: The variety-of-evidence thesis: a Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2053363)