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(2007) Synthese 157 (3).
If coherence is to have justificatory status, as some analytical philosophers think it has, it must be truth-conducive, if perhaps only under certain specific conditions. This paper is a critical discussion of some recent arguments that seek to show that under no reasonable conditions can coherence be truth-conducive. More specifically, it considers Bovens and Hartmann’s and Olsson’s “impossibility results,” which attempt to show that coherence cannot possibly be a truth-conducive property. We point to various ways in which the advocates of a coherence theory of justification may attempt to divert the threat of these results.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9060-x
Full citation:
Meijs, W. , Douven, I. (2007). On the alleged impossibility of coherence. Synthese 157 (3), pp. 347-360.
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