Ways in which coherence is confirmation conducive

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9057-5MaRDI QIDQ2460169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Moretti

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9057-5

zbMATH Keywords

Philosophy of scienceCoherentismCoherence measuresConfirmation transmissionDietrichFitelsonMorettiOlssonTotal evidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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• A probabilistic theory of coherence
• Bayesian epistemology.

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• Coherence of the contents and the transmission of probabilistic support
• Genuine coherence as mutual confirmation between content elements
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