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Competing accounts of contrastive coherence

Michael Schippers

pp. 3383-3395

Abstract

The proposition that Tweety is a bird coheres better with the proposition that Tweety has wings than with the proposition that Tweety cannot fly. This relationship of contrastive coherence is the focus of the present paper. Based on recent work in formal epistemology we consider various possibilities to model this relationship by means of probability theory. In a second step we consider different applications of these models. Among others, we offer a coherentist interpretation of the conjunction fallacy.

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(2016) Synthese 193 (10).

Pages: 3383-3395

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0937-4

Full citation:

Schippers Michael (2016) „Competing accounts of contrastive coherence“. Synthese 193 (10), 3383–3395.