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- Title
Why explanation and thus coherence cannot be reduced to probability.
- Authors
Siebel, Mark
- Abstract
The article presents a proof that no purely probabilistic theory will ever be able to adequately capture explanation. It believes that because of their lack of hyperintensionality, pure probabilistic theories provide the same result in cases of logical equivalence and are therefore not able to differentiate distinctly enough. It notes that probability might be one of the aspects crucial to explanation, but explanation cannot be captured just by probabilistic terms.
- Subjects
PROBABILITY theory; EXPLANATION; THEORY of knowledge; PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHERS
- Publication
Analysis, 2011, Vol 71, Issue 2, p264
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/anr019