Epistemological Relevance and Statistical Knowledge
Abstract
For many years, at least since McCarthy and Hayes (1969), writers have lamented, and attempted to compensate statistical knowledge for governing the uncertainty of belief, for making uncertain inference, and the like. It is hardly ever spelled out what 'adequate statistical knowledge' would be, if we had it, and how adequate statistical knowledge could be used to control and regulate epistemic-uncertainty. One response to lack of adequate statistics has been to search for non-statistical measures of uncertainty. The minimal variant has been to propose 'subjective probability' as a concept to which we can turn when we lack statistics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA250144
Entities
People
- Henry E. Kyburg Jr.
Organizations
- University of Rochester