Preservation of independence and Goodman's riddle

Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
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The paper argues that relations of probabilistic independence between evidence statements must be preserved in enumerative induction. It further shows that, given such a preservation principle, there is a straightforward Bayesian solution to Goodman's new riddle of induction.

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