 Notice that \(m^*\) gives greater weight to the homogenous state descriptions 1 and 8 than to the heterogeneous ones. This will manifest itself in the inductive support that hypotheses can gain from appropriate evidence statements. Consider the hypothesis statement \(h = Fc\), true in 4 of the 8 state descriptions, with a priori probability \(m^*(h) = 1/2\). Suppose we examine individual “\(a\)” and find it has property \(F\) — call this evidence \(e\).  Intuitively, \(e\) is favorable (albeit weak) inductive evidence for \(h\). We have: \(m^*(h \amp e) = 1/3,\) \(m^*(e) = 1/2\), and hence