id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ypgs6bec6nejrmyuz4mbrrkhbm Branden Fitelson Putting the Irrelevance Back Into the Problem of Irrelevant Conjunction 2002 12 .pdf application/pdf 4842 569 71 deductive accounts of confirmation and the problem of irrelevant conjunction. see Earman 1992, 63–65 for a canonical contemporary Bayesian discussion of the problem of irrelevant conjunction. Bayesian account (and understanding) of the problem of irrelevant conjunction. However, Bayesian confirmation does still suffer from this problem in the case of deductive evidence. With regard to the problem of irrelevant conjunction, Earman's analysis employs the difference measure d. Bayesian analysis and resolution of the problem of irrelevant conjunction. sin of 'irrelevant conjunction' vitiates Bayesian confirmation theory Bayesian relevance measures of the degree to which evidence confirms Bayesian solution to the problem of irrelevant conjunction should be directly extendable to non-deductive cases, and should draw on a probabilistic relevant result for Bayesian confirmation theory and the problem of irrelevant conjunction: theorem which holds for all Bayesian measures of confirmation currently being used in the philosophical literature, except for the ratio ./cache/work_ypgs6bec6nejrmyuz4mbrrkhbm.pdf ./txt/work_ypgs6bec6nejrmyuz4mbrrkhbm.txt