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Ideas for Lycophron, J.J.C. Smart and Rita Carter

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

17070	Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief [Smart]
	Full Idea: I shall make use of the admittedly imprecise notions of consilience, simplicity, analogy and fitting into a web of belief, or in short of 'coherence'.
	From: J.J.C. Smart (Explanation - Opening Address [1990], p.06)
	A reaction: Coherence sounds like a family of tests, rather than a single unified concept. I still like coherence, though.

17072	We need comprehensiveness, as well as self-coherence [Smart]
	Full Idea: Not mere self-coherence, but comprehensiveness belongs to the notion of coherence.
	From: J.J.C. Smart (Explanation - Opening Address [1990], p.07)