New Hope for Shogenji’s Coherence Measure∗
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چکیده
I show that the two most devastating objections to Shogenji’s formal account of coherence necessarily involve information sets of cardinality n ≥ 3. Given this, I surmise that the problem with Shogenji’s measure has more to do with his means of generalizing the measure than with the measure itself. I defend this claim by offering an alternative generalization of Shogenji’s measure. This alternative retains the intuitive merits of the original measure while avoiding both of the relevant problems that befall it. In the light of all of this, I suggest that there is new hope for Shogenji’s analysis; Shogenji’s early and influential attempt at measuring coherence, when generalized in a subsetsensitive way, is able to clear its most troubling objections. ∗I owe special thanks to Luc Bovens, Stephan Hartmann, and Jan Sprenger for helpful conversations pertaining to this paper. I also am grateful to Tilburg University’s Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) for supporting me with a research fellowship during the time that I wrote this paper. †University of Pittsburgh, Department of History & Philosophy of Science; 1017 Cathedral of Learning; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; 15260.
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