Glymour on Evidential Relevance

Bibliographic Data

ID10705366
AuthorsDavid Christensen (0000-0001-5255-0029, UCLA Health, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume50
Issue3
Pages471-481
Publication date1983-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/289130
OpenAlexW2069512062
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited4

Glymour's “bootstrap” account of confirmation is designed to provide an analysis of evidential relevance, which has been a serious problem for hypothetico-deductivism. As set out in Theory and Evidence , however, the “bootstrap” condition allows confirmation in clear cases of evidential irrelevance. The difficulties with Glymour's account seem to be due to a basic feature which it shares with hypothetico-deductive accounts, and which may explain why neither can give a satisfactory analysis of evidential relevance

Epistemology · Political science · Relevance (law) · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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