Supposition and (Statistical) Models.

In a recent paper, Sprenger advances what he calls a "suppositional" answer to the question of why a Bayesian agent's degrees of belief should align with the probabilities found in statistical models. I show that Sprenger's account trades on an ambiguity between hypothetical and subjunctive supposit...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 744 - 750
Main Author: Dethier, Corey
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Jul2023
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