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MEDICAL MECHANISMS AND THE RESILIENCE OF PROBABILITIES.
- Source :
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Episteme (Cambridge University Press) . Sep2019, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p322-339. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper argues that there is an important connection between Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism, in the medical context of the interplay between mechanisms and population studies. It is argued that the criteria for evaluating mechanistic evidence can be used in Inference to the Best Explanation and such use thereby increases the resilience of probabilities in a Bayesian framework. This point grows out of the emerging literature on evidence-based medicine and naturally strengthens McCain and Poston's proposal that explanatory information is evidentially relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PROBABILITY theory
*EVIDENCE-based medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17423600
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Episteme (Cambridge University Press)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 138141904
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.12