Determinants of confirmation.
Epistemologists often suppose that the extent to which evidence e confirms hypothesis H depends on probabilities involving e and H, and nothing more. We show experimentally that human reasoners sometimes violate this assumption.
Tentori
Katya
K
Universitâ degli Studi di Trento, Rovereto, Italy. katya.tentori@unitn.it
Crupi
Vincenzo
V
Osherson
Daniel
D
D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008960:Models, Psychological