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Article: Olsson, Erik J. Against Coherence. Truth, Probability, and Justification.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- December 1, 2007
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OLSSON, Erik J. Against Coherence. Truth, Probability, and Justification. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii + 232 pp. Cloth, $37.00--Against Coherence explores the relationship between coherence and truth. Olsson critically assesses the claims of important scholarly accounts of this relationship with a strong emphasis on C. I. Lewis's A Theory of Knowledge and Valuation (1946), Laurence BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (1985), the work of Peter Klein and Ted A. Warfield, L. Jonathan Cohen's The Probable and the Provable (1977) and C. A. J. Coady's Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992). He demonstrates that there cannot be truth based on ...
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