Reconciling probability theory and coherentism.
Recent results in the literature appear to show that it is impossible for two independent testimonies to jointly raise the probability of a proposition if neither testimony individually has any impact on that probability. I show that these impossibility results do not apply when testimonies agree on...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 191; no. 6; pp. 1075 - 1085 |
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Apr2014
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