The book of evidence

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Contents

1. The Dean's Challenge

2. Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge

3. Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence

4. What's Wrong with These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence?

5. Objective Epistemic Probability

6. Evidence, High Probability, and Belief

7. The Explanatory Connection

8. Final Definitions and Realism

9. Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue

10. Explanation versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential Weight?

11. Old-Age and New-Age Holism 12. Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality13. Who Really Discovered the Electron?

Index

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