Mark Siebel (2004) has presented a compelling argument against Branden Fitelson’s (2003) probabilistic measure of coherence. The present paper shows how Siebel’s argument can be strengthened and thereby extended to an argument against a huge class of coherence measures from the literature including William Roche’s (2013) average mutual firmness account, which has not been challenged up to now.
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