Ernest Sosa. The raft and the pyramid: Coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge. In Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander Nat, editors, Human Knowledge Classical and Contemporary Approaches, pages 341-356. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1995. Home/Search Document Not in Database Summary Related Articles Check |
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The Role of Abductive Reasoning within the Process of Belief.. - Pagnucco (1996) (12 citations) (Correct)
....is possible to have coherence theories which possess more than one aspect from this list. The distinction between the foundational and coherence approaches is often illustrated through two metaphors: the foundationalist pyramid and the coherentist raft . These are succinctly expressed by Sosa [119]: For the foundationalist every piece of knowledge stands at the apex of a pyramid that rests on stable and secure foundations whose stability and security does not derive from the upper stories or sections. For the coherentist a body of knowledge is a free floating raft every plank of which ....
Ernest Sosa. The raft and the pyramid: Coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge. In Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5, pages 3--25. University of Minnesota, Morris, 1980.
Order Effects in Human Belief Revision - Wang (1998) (Correct)
....comparison with the foundations approach, in the coherence approach beliefs can be held independently of how they may have been inferred. Moreover, since beliefs cohere and mutually justify each other, no belief is more fundamental than another, and cycles are allowed in the justification chains. Sosa (1980, page 23) describes the differences between the two approaches in the following way: For the foundationalist every piece of knowledge stands at the apex of a pyramid that rests on stable and secure foundations whose stability and security does not derive from the upper stories or sections. For ....
Sosa, E. (1980). The raft and the pyramid: Coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 5, 3-25.
Reasoning about Beliefs: An Inference Network Approach - Low (1994) (Correct)
....changes only start from the weakest beliefs. It also revealed that while NLBN has well defined network update operators, a formal characterization of the nonmonotonic belief state changes is necessary to fully understand its behavior. A NLBN is neither a pure foundation nor coherence system [Sosa, 1980; Harman, 1986] It is basically a foundation system where all beliefs are supported by some evidential inputs. But with its consistency reasoning process, logical relations in the network are maintained and in addition, given a belief state S with n propositions, for any proposition p i 2 S and ....
E. Sosa. The raft and the pyramid : Coherence versus foundations in the theories of knowledge. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 5:3--25, 1980.
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Ernest Sosa. The raft and the pyramid: Coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge. In Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander Nat, editors, Human Knowledge Classical and Contemporary Approaches, pages 341-356. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1995.
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Sosa, E. (1980) The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5, pp. 3-25.
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