id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_twmvb3ybfvbvnlcliz67m4nuoq François Claveau The Independence Condition in the Variety-of-Evidence Thesis 2013 26 .pdf application/pdf 10764 1259 70 version of Bovens and Hartmann's model and reproduce one of their results against the variety-of-evidence thesis.4 The model uses three types of • The reliability variable Ri 5 fri; :rig, where ri stands for the proposition that the evidential source i ðthe one having as output EiÞ is The probability distribution PIð�Þ associated with the network in figure 1A is meant to capture the idea that two sources are reliability independent ði.e., R1 ⫫ R2Þ. the evidential report is positive, given that the source is unreliable. for all admissible parameter values—that is, we should have a higher confidence in the hypothesis if our two positive reports come from reliabilityindependent sources as compared to reliability-shared sources. concordant report in the shared-reliability model thus contributes to confirmation in the following way: "we feel more confident that the instrument is variety-of-evidence thesis explicitly compares more independent to less independent evidential elements, the comparison made with our two models is ./cache/work_twmvb3ybfvbvnlcliz67m4nuoq.pdf ./txt/work_twmvb3ybfvbvnlcliz67m4nuoq.txt