Equivalent testimonies as a touchstone of coherence measures

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Synthese 161 (2):167-182 (2008)
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Over the past years, a number of probabilistic measures of coherence have been proposed. As shown in the paper, however, many of them do not conform to the intuitition that equivalent testimonies are highly coherent, regardless of their prior probability.

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