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    Hempel's criterion of adequacy for confirmation requires ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The proposed analogical inference rule (5) is unacceptable as a general rule.

    Hempel's criterion of adequacy for confirmation requires that evidential support be sensitive to the content-specific relevance of shared properties, not merely their formal co-instantiation.

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    Content-specific relevance(as what Hempel argued should matter)
    The idea that evidence matters for a claim only if it actually relates to what that claim is specifically about, not just because it shares some surface-level feature.
    Criterion of adequacy(as used in philosophy of science)
    A standard or requirement that something must meet to be considered good, acceptable, or correct.
    Evidential support(as what the functions measure)
    The strength and quality of reasons or evidence that suggests something is true or false.
    Formal co-instantiation(as what Hempel argued should NOT be enough for evidence to count)
    When two things both have the same property or characteristic in a purely structural or logical sense, without necessarily meaning anything substantive about each other.

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    Hempel(as a historical reference)
    Carl Hempel (1905-1997) was a philosopher who created a famous theory about what counts as scientific explanation and confirmation.
    confirmation(Christensen 1999: 441; general epistemological usage)
    The epistemic relationship in which current confidence in proposition E helps make rational one's current confidence in hypothesis H

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