Profil pouzdanosti izvora informacija: Najbazičnija verzija

Abstract

Cilj ovog rada je pokušaj analize i pomirenja nekih na prvi pogled suprotstavljenih teorija pouzdanosti u okviru formalnih teorija koherencije. Formalni koherentisti nastojali su da pokažu da između koherencije skupa informacija i pouzdanosti izvora informacija postoji određena epistemološki interesantna veza. Među ovim autorima postoje podele i neslaganja kako po pitanju prirode koherencije, tako i po pitanju prirode pouzdanosti. Sa jedne strane imamo probabilističke koherentiste koji zastupaju statističko shvatanje pouzdanosti. Sa druge strane imamo zastupnike eksplanatorne koherencije koji imaju dispozicionalističke stavove o prirodi pouzdanosti. Zadatak koji postavljamo u ovom radu je dvostruk: prikazati i objasniti neka shvatanja pouzdanosti, bez naročitog ulaženja u dubine koherentističkih teorija u kojima su ta shvatanja nastala i pokazati da ta viđenja pouzdanosti nisu suprotstavljena u meri u kojoj se to može učiniti, već da zajedno mogu činiti nešto što ćemo u ovom radu zvati „profil pouzdanosti izvora informacija”, „najbazičnija verzija” ili kraće PPIIbasic

The aim of this paper is an attempt at analyses and reconciliation of some prima facie confronted theories of reliability in the context of formal theories of coherence. Formal coherentists attempted to show that there is an epistemologically interesting connection between coherence of an information set and reliability of information sources. Amongst these authors there are divisions and differences concerning the nature of coherence, as well as the nature of reliability. On the one side, we have before us probabilistic coherentists who support a statistical understanding of reliability. On the other side we have supporters of explanatory coherence who see reliability as a dispostition. There are two goals that we shall attempt to achieve in this paper: to present and explain some ideas of reliability, without going into fine detailes and depths of theories in which they were formulated and to show that those ideas about reliability are not that irreconcilable as they might appear, but that they together can form something that we shall call „reliability profile of an information source”, „the most basic version”, or shorter: RPISbasic