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How to Confirm the Conjunction of Disconfirmed Hypotheses

Published:2009-01 Issue:1 Volume:76 Page:1-21
ISSN:0031-8248
Container-title:Philosophy of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Philos. of Sci.

Author:

Atkinson David,Peijnenburg Jeanne,Kuipers Theo

Abstract

Could some evidence confirm a conjunction of two hypotheses more than it confirms either of the hypotheses separately? We show that it might, moreover under conditions that are the same for ten different measures of confirmation. Further, we demonstrate that it is even possible for the conjunction of two disconfirmed hypotheses to be confirmed by the same evidence.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History

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