Further results on inquiry and truth possession
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Further results on inquiry and truth possession
zbMATH Open document ID: 1014.62001
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00308-5
author: Don Fallis
author: Gerrard Liddell
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 2003-05-07T00:00:00Z
review text: \textit{A.I. Goldman} and \textit{M. Shaked} [ibid. 12, No. 5, 415-420 (1991; Zbl 0742.62108)] have shown that for all reciprocally convex measures of truth possession experiments are always ``objectively'' expected to increase a scientist's degree of truth possession. The authors show that this result is optimal. Further, they argue that all scientifically acceptable measures of truth possession are proper scoring rules. However, no bounded proper scoring rules are reciprocally convex. Thus, they establish that, for many scientifically acceptable measures of truth possession, experiments are only ``subjectively'' expected to increase a scientist's degree of truth possession.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62A01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60A05
zbMATH DE Number: 1906993
zbMATH Keywords: philosophy of science
zbMATH Keywords: truth acquisition
zbMATH Keywords: scientific experiments
zbMATH Keywords: proper scoring rules
zbMATH Keywords: truth possession
zbMATH Keywords: epistemic utility
reviewed by: Romano Scozzafava
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: s0167-7152(02)00308-5
OpenAlex ID: W2085969922
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1906993