EXPLAINING THE LIMITS OF OLSSON'S IMPOSSIBILITY RESULT.
abstract In his groundbreaking book, Against Coherence (2005), Erik Olsson presents an ingenious impossibility theorem that appears to show that there is no informative relationship between probabilistic measures of coherence and higher likelihood of truth. Although Olsson's result provides an impor...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 136 - 151 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring2012
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