Bovens, Luc Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hartmann, Stephan London School of Economics
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926975-4
doi:10.1093/0199269750.003.0003
Luc Bovens
Stephan Hartmann
Shows how to construct a coherence quasi-ordering that respects the claim that the more coherent a set of propositions is, the greater the degree of confidence ought to be in its content, ceteris paribus. Applies this result to the problem of scientific-theory choice.
Keywords: Bonjour, coherence measures, Coherence quasi-ordering, scientific-theory choice, Tweety,
doi:10.1093/0199269750.003.0003
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