id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yq77oan73na55bawmwrnj4uooy Helen E. Longino Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations 1979 23 .pdf application/pdf 10409 539 57 relations on background beliefs is illustrated by discussions of the MichelsonMorley experiment and the discovery of oxygen. beliefs, hypotheses, theories, assign the status of evidence to objects way, states of affairs are taken as evidence in light of regularities is taken as evidence differs: in the one case I believe that red spots The same state of affairs can also be taken as evidence for different the same state of affairs can be evidence for different hypotheses, of differing background beliefs, and it can be taken as evidence for I have discussed the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs or assumptions and shown that given appropriately differing background beliefs the same state of affairs can be taken background beliefs determine what states of affairs count as evidence Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations [pp. Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations [pp. Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations [pp. ./cache/work_yq77oan73na55bawmwrnj4uooy.pdf ./txt/work_yq77oan73na55bawmwrnj4uooy.txt