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| Causation, Association and Confirmation | |
| Συγγραφέας: Gregory Wheeler, Richard Scheines Gregory Wheeler, Richard Scheines: Causation, Association and Confirmation (pdf, 16 pages) Many  philosophers  of  science  have  argued  that  a  set  of  evidence  that  is "coherent" confirms a hypothesis which explains such coherence.   In this paper,  we  examine  the  relationships  between  probabilistic  models  of  all three  of  these  concepts:  coherence,  confirmation,  and  explanation.    For coherence, we consider Shogenji's measure of association (deviation from independence).    For  confirmation,  we  consider  several  measures  in  the literature, and for explanation, we turn to Causal Bayes Nets and resort to causal structure and its constraint on probability.  All else equal, we show that  focused  correlation,  which  is  the  ratio  of  the  coherence  of  evidence and  the  coherence  of  the  evidence  conditional  on  a  hypothesis,  tracks confirmation.  We then show that the causal structure of the evidence and hypothesis  can  put  strong  constraints  on  how  coherence  in  the  evidence does or does not translate into confirmation of the hypothesis. | |
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