Single Idea 19513

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification]

Full Idea

If you are a coherentist and a contextualist, you'll probably want to hold that how strongly beliefs must cohere with one another in order to count as knowledge (if they are true), or to count as justified, is a contextually variable matter.

Gist of Idea

A contextualist coherentist will say that how strongly a justification must cohere depends on context

Source

Keith DeRose (The Case for Contextualism [2009], 1.09)

Book Reference

DeRose,Keith: 'The Case for Contextualism' [OUP 2009], p.22


A Reaction

How exciting! He's talking about ME! Context might not only dictate the strength of the coherence, but also the range of beliefs involved. In fact all of Thagard's criteria of coherence may be subject to contextual variation.

Related Idea

Idea 17598 Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard]