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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Books on Amazon | 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. |
LewisCl Clarence Irving Lewis Collected Papers of Clarence Irving Lewis Stanford 1970 LW I David K. Lewis Die Identität von Körper und Geist Frankfurt 1989 LW II David K. Lewis Konventionen Berlin 1975 LW IV David K. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd I New York Oxford 1983 LW V David K. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd II New York Oxford 1986 LwCl I Clarence Irving Lewis Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) 1991 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2018-04-22