Hitchcock and Sober on Weak Predictivism

Philosophia (United States) - Tập 40 - Trang 553-562 - 2011
Wang-Yen Lee1
1School of Humanities, University of Science, Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Tóm tắt

According to Hitchcock and Sober’s argument from overfitting for weak predictivism, the fact that a theory accurately predicts a portion of its data is evidence that it has been formulated by balancing simplicity and goodness-of-fit rather than overfitting data. The core argument consists of two likelihood inequalities. In this paper I show that there is a surprising accommodation-friendly implication in their argument, and contend that it is beset by a substantial difficulty, namely, there is no good reason to think that their second likelihood inequality is true.

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