Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In changing your view, you must balance the amount of change involved against the improvement in explanatory coherence resulting from the change. Even if change and improvement in coherence are measured by simply counting, there can be no general requirement that the number of modified items (added or subtracted) be no greater than the number of new explanatory and implications links. The relation between conservatism and coherence is mroe complex than that.