In their very rich and stimulating article, Dahlman and Mackor (2019) investigate a number of important aspects of coherence in law, outgoing from Van Koppen’s scenario theory and Amaya’s theory of inference to the most coherence explanation, which in its turn builds on Thagard’s analysis of explanatory coherence (Thagard, 2000; Van Koppen, 2011; Amaya, 2015). A major theme in their article is the extent to which coherence can be reduced to probability. According to the kind of reductionism they investigate, ‘coherence can be defined in probabilistic terms without loss’ (p. 1).¹ However, they are careful to distinguish between a reductive approach to the concept of coherence, on the one hand, and a...

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达尔曼和麦克尔论法律证据中的连贯性和可能性：评论

Dahlman和Mackor（2019）在其非常丰富和令人振奋的文章中，研究了法律连贯性的许多重要方面，从范·科本的情境理论和阿玛亚的推理理论衍生出了最连贯的解释，而后者又以塔加德的分析为基础说明性连贯性（Thagard，2000; Van Koppen，2011; Amaya，2015）。他们文章中的一个主要主题是连贯性可以降低到何种程度。根据他们研究的还原论的类型，“可以用概率术语定义一致性而不会造成损失”（第1页）。¹然而，他们一方面谨慎地将还原性方法用于连贯性概念，另一方面又将其与...