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Bayesian Humility.

Say that an agent is epistemically humble if she is less than fully confident that her opinions will converge to the truth, given appropriate evidence. Is such humility rationally permissible? According to Gordon Belot's orgulity argument: the answer is yes, but long-run convergence-to-the-truth the...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 305 - 324
Main Author: Elga, Adam
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Jul2016
Subjects:
Bayesian analysis
Theory of knowledge
Truthfulness & falsehood
Belot, Gordon
Reasoning
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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