• DOI:10.1080/00455091.1981.10716311
Corpus ID: 148236513

The Objective Confirmation of Hypotheses

@article{Stemmer1981TheOC,
  title={The Objective Confirmation of Hypotheses},
  author={N. Stemmer},
  journal={Canadian Journal of Philosophy},
  year={1981},
  volume={11},
  pages={395-404}
}

• N. Stemmer
• Published 1981
• Philosophy
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy

According to Nicod's criterion of confirmation ([7]), a hypothesis of the form 'All Pare Q' is confirmed by its positive instances, i.e. by entities that are P and Q. It is well known, however, that the criterion gives origin to counterintuitive results. For example, it sanctions the confirmation of 'All nonblacks are nonravens' by a nonblack nonraven. Since this hypothesis is logically equivalent to 'All ravens are black,' it follows that the criterion indirectly sanctions the counterintuitive… Expand

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