andybiersack154
andybiersack154
10.12.2021 • 
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It is sometimes said that "extraordinary claims and theories require extraordinary evidence". (What's meant by "extraordinary evidence" is a great deal of evidence, and what's meant by "extraordinary claims" is claims that are strange or out-of-the-ordinary. So in other words, the claim is that “very strange or out-of-the-ordinary claims or theories require a great deal of evidence before we believe them”.) Explain how this idea fits our framework of updating and evaluating theories, using all of the following four concepts: prior probability, strength factor, coherence, and simplicity.

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