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Ideas of Erik J. Olsson, by Text
[Swedish, fl. 2005, Professor at Lund University, Sweden.]
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p.2
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Mere agreement of testimonies is not enough to make truth very likely
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10.1
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p.175
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Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence
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2.6.2
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p.30
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Coherence is only needed if the information sources are not fully reliable
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4.1
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p.62
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A purely coherent theory cannot be true of the world without some contact with the world
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6.4
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p.105
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Extending a system makes it less probable, so extending coherence can't make it more probable
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p.156
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Coherence is the capacity to answer objections
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