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(2012) Synthese 184 (1).
Tom Stoneham put forward an argument purporting to show that coherentists are, under certain conditions, committed to the conjunction fallacy. Stoneham considers this argument a reductio ad absurdum of any coherence theory of justification. I argue that Stoneham neglects the distinction between degrees of confirmation and degrees of probability. Once the distinction is in place, it becomes clear that no conjunction fallacy has been committed.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9692-8
Full citation:
Peijnenburg, J. (2012). A case of confusing probability and confirmation. Synthese 184 (1), pp. 101-107.
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