Infinite Opinion Sets and Relative Accuracy

Journal of Philosophy 120 (6):285-313 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

We can have credences in an infinite number of propositions—that is, our opinion set can be infinite. Accuracy-first epistemologists have devoted themselves to evaluating credal states with the help of the concept of ‘accuracy’. Unfortunately, under several innocuous assumptions, infinite opinion sets yield several undesirable results, some of which are even fatal, to accuracy-first epistemology. Moreover, accuracy-first epistemologists cannot circumvent these difficulties in any standard way. In this regard, we will suggest a non-standard approach, called a relativistic approach, to accuracy-first epistemology and show that such an approach can successfully circumvent undesirable results while having some advantages over the standard approach.

Similar books and articles

On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets.Mikayla Kelley - 2023 - Philosophy of Science 90 (1):92-128.
On infinite size.Bruno Whittle - 2015 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9:3-19.
Some inaccuracies about accuracy conditions.Farid Zahnoun - 2023 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (2):461-477.
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.Miriam Schoenfield - 2022 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 (2):373-406.
On quasi-amorphous sets.P. Creed & J. K. Truss - 2001 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 40 (8):581-596.
Infinite time Turing machines.Joel David Hamkins & Andy Lewis - 2000 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 65 (2):567-604.
Some Ramsey-type theorems for countably determined sets.Josef Mlček & Pavol Zlatoš - 2002 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 41 (7):619-630.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-01-14

Downloads
387 (#52,473)

6 months
143 (#25,281)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Ilho Park
Jeonbuk National University
Jaemin Jung
Hanyang University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations