NOT ENOUGH THERE THERE EVIDENCE, REASONS, AND LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE

Abstract

• The trouble caused by language dependence is not confined to formal analyses of evidential support; language dependence concerns apply to any story about how we should draw conclusions from evidence. • This is because language dependence reveals a deep problem: evidential propositions do not possess enough information to substantively favor some conclusions over others. • Introducing a distinction between natural and nonnatural properties does not alleviate this problem. • The problem is not equally a problem for everyone—it makes some views of evidential favoring much harder to maintain than others.