The confirmational significance of agreeing measurements

Helgeson, CaseyORCID logo (2013) The confirmational significance of agreeing measurements. Philosophy of Science, 80 (5). pp. 721-732. ISSN 0031-8248
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Agreement between \independent" measurements of a theoretically posited quantity is intuitively compelling evidence that a theory is, loosely speaking, on the right track. But exactly what conclusion is warranted by such agreement? I propose a new account of the phenomenon's epistemic significance within the framework of Bayesian epistemology. I contrast my proposal with the standard Bayesian treatment, which lumps the phenomenon under the heading of \evidential diversity."

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