Reconciling probability theory and coherentism

• Autores: Conal Duddy
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 191, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 1075-1084
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 incidental details.