PHIL 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Intuitionistic Logic, Confirmation Bias, Law Of Excluded Middle

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 210
• Professor: Gregory Lavers

Document Summary

The range of values within which we can be statistically confident (to some specified degree) that the true value falls. A conjoint probability of dependent events where p(a|b) is read as "the probability of a given. A representative number that shows the spread in the sample data. Biases that influence such cognitive processes as judging, thinking, planning, deciding and remembering. A wide variety of ways in which beliefs, expectations or emotional commitments regarding a hypothesis can lead to its seeming more highly confirmed than the evidence really warrants.