Coherence and Reliability: The Case of Overlapping Testimonies |
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Authors: | Stefan Schubert |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy Department, Lund University, Kungshuset, Lundag?rd, 222 22 Lund, Sweden |
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Abstract: | A measure of coherence is said to be reliability conducive if and only if a higher degree of coherence (as measured) among
testimonies implies a higher probability that the witnesses are reliable. Recently, it has been proved that several coherence
measures proposed in the literature are reliability conducive in scenarios of equivalent testimonies (Olsson and Schubert
2007; Schubert, to appear). My aim is to investigate which coherence measures turn out to be reliability conducive in the more
general scenario where the testimonies do not have to be equivalent. It is shown that four measures are reliability conducive
in the present scenario, all of which are ordinally equivalent to the Shogenji measure. I take that to be an argument for
the Shogenji measure being a fruitful explication of coherence. |
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