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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays which deploy formal methods to address epistemological and metaphysical questions. The first part of the book focuses on quantity; the second on degrees of belief, belief revision, and coherence; the third on aspects of inductive reasoning. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Zeno and the metaphysics of quantity. Zeno's paradox of measure -- Tractarian nominalism -- Logical atoms and combinatorial possibility -- Strict coherence, sigma coherence, and the metaphysics of quantity -- pt. II. Coherent degrees of belief. Higher-order degrees of belief -- A mistake in dynamic coherence arguments? -- Dynamic coherence and probability kinematics -- Updating, supposing, and MAXENT -- The structure of radical probabilism -- Diachronic coherence and radical probabilism -- pt. III. Induction. Carnapian inductive logic for Markov chains -- Carnapian inductive logic and Bayesian statistics -- Bayesian projectability. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
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Quantity (Philosophy)
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Quantity (Philosophy) |
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Sense of coherence.
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Sense of coherence. |
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Induction (Logic)
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Induction (Logic) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version 9780199652808 |
| ISBN |
9780191745829 (ebook) |
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0191745820 (ebook) |
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9780199652815 (Paper) |
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0199652813 (Paper) |
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9781283960830 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283960834 (MyiLibrary) |
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0191655368 |
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9780191655364 |
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9780199652808 |
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0199652805 |
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