Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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Likelihood: likelihood is probability in statistics. The term is used in the context of numerical density and plausibility, whereas in probability distribution the term “probability” is used. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
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Lewis, David   Books on Amazon	Likelihood	V 106 Definition Likelihood/Lewis: belief in individual documents according to certain hypotheses. - Assessment of evidence under assumptions - the likelihood is fixed regardless of previous belief functions and earlier documents - in a way that the observed frequencies tend to confirm the hypothesis, so that they do not deviate too much from the unit opportunities. - Likelihoods are the end-point opportunities according to the different hypotheses. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	LW I D. Lewis Die Identität von Körper und Geist Frankfurt 1989 LW II D. Lewis Konventionen Berlin 1975 LW IV D. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd I New York Oxford 1983 LW V D. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd II New York Oxford 1986 LwCl I Cl. I. Lewis Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) 1991

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