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Peirce on the Method of Balancing 'Likelihoods'.

The article presents an examination of philosopher Charles S. Peirce's approach to historical inference called the Method of Balancing Likelihoods (MBL), which is the subsequent probability that a disputed historical event has occurred as determined on the basis of the prior likelihood of that event...

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Published in:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 668 - 689
Main Author: JANTZEN, BENJAMIN C.
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Fall2009
Subjects:
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
Inference (Logic)
Probability theory
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
Abduction (Logic)
Theory
Possibility
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