id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lujapkun6jh5njlwxppm26yfki Sherrilyn Roush Discussion Note: Positive Relevance Defended* 2004 7 .pdf application/pdf 3275 221 72 The second example fails because what Achinstein claims is evidence is redundant with information we already have. Achinstein submits that given e1 and b, e2 is strong evidence for h yet, he claims: not change the probability of the hypothesis, and therefore, on the positive relevance view, e2 is not evidence for h in the circumstance described. This assumption makes the probability of a Clinton win as high as it could get (.999) on the basis of any examples where evidence makes the probability of a hypothesis equal to 1 the strength of the evidence is measured by the degree to which it positively changes the probability of the hypothesis. this is not a reason to think positive relevance is not necessary for evidence. symptoms S.1 Yet the positive relevance account of evidence does not probabilities we have to do with in Achinstein's claim that e2 is evidence ./cache/work_lujapkun6jh5njlwxppm26yfki.pdf ./txt/work_lujapkun6jh5njlwxppm26yfki.txt