 According to some calibration arguments, actual calibration is an epistemic goal; according to others, hypothetical calibration is the goal. Whichever it is, the epistemic disutility of a credence ought to be given by its distance from this epistemic goal. We say that an epistemic disutility function is local if it measures only the epistemic disutility of an individual credence at a world; we say that it is global if it measures the epistemic disutility of an entire credence function at a world. In this section, we will be concerned only with local epistemic disutility functions. In sections  5  and  6,  we will be concerned instead with global epistemic disutility functions.