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AN ENDLESS HIERARCHY OF PROBABILITIES
Full text linkAccording to radical probabilism, all factual claims are merely probabilistic in character. Throughout the centuries this view has been criticized on the grounds that it triggers an infinite regress: if every claim is probabilistic, then the proposition that something is probable is itself only probable, and so on. An endless hierarchy of probabilities seems to emerge and, as a result, the probability of the original proposition can never be determined. This criticism goes back as far as David Hume, and in the twentieth century it was raised also by statisticians such as Leonard J. Savage. Recently Nicholas Rescher ventured a similar critique of radical probabilism. In this paper it is argued that the criticism does not hold water, for an endless hierarchy of probability statements is no obstacle to attaching a definite probability value to the original proposition. Moreover, it is claimed that radical probabilism can reinforce some of Rescher's own main claims
Nicholas Rescher, Studies in Arabic Philosophy
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, Studies in Arabic Philosophy. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. pp. 200-201
Nicholas Rescher, Studies in Arabic Philosophy
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, Studies in Arabic Philosophy. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. pp. 200-201
Nicholas Rescher, Al-Kindī. An Annotated Bibliography
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, Al-Kindī. An Annotated Bibliography. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. pp. 201-202
Nicholas Rescher, The Development of Arabic Logic
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, The Development of Arabic Logic. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. p. 201
Nicholas Rescher, The Development of Arabic Logic
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, The Development of Arabic Logic. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. p. 201
Nicholas Rescher, Al-Kindī. An Annotated Bibliography
No full textVan Riet Simone. Nicholas Rescher, Al-Kindī. An Annotated Bibliography. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 67, n°93, 1969. pp. 201-202
The Logic of Decision and Action. Edited by Nicholas Rescher
No full textDopp Joseph. The Logic of Decision and Action. Edited by Nicholas Rescher. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 66, n°92, 1968. pp. 741-742
The Logic of Decision and Action. Edited by Nicholas Rescher
No full textDopp Joseph. The Logic of Decision and Action. Edited by Nicholas Rescher. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 66, n°92, 1968. pp. 741-742
Book Review: <i>Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus </i>by Nicholas Rescher
No full textPluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus by Nicholas Rescher published by Clarendon Press (1993). Book Review by Shane O'NeillVol 7 (1995): Utilita
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