Mapping Inferential Domains

Tillers, Peter

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Mapping Inferential Domains

Peter Tillers

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3-4, 1986

Abstract:
This paper is an extended defense of pluralism in formal theorizing about factual inference. To that end the paper examines (i) the role of subjective partitioning and shaping of evidence (ii) the character of inferences about human meaning.

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Keywords: evidence, inference, induction, proof, Bayesianism, Baconianism, epistemology, probability

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Date posted: June 19, 2008

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Tillers, Peter, Mapping Inferential Domains. Boston University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3-4, 1986. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134952

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