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In Luc Bovens & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Bayesian Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003)
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Addresses ‘too-odd-not-to-be-true’ reasoning in the assessment of testimony. This is the curious phenomenon that an initially less plausible report from multiple independent witnesses may elicit more confidence than an initially more plausible report.

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Luc Bovens
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stephan Hartmann
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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