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Single Idea 19077

[filed under theme 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth ]

Full Idea

It is unsatisfactory for the coherence relation to be consistency, because two propositions could be consistent with a 'specified set', and yet be inconsistent with each other. That would imply they are both true, which is impossible.

Gist of Idea

Two propositions could be consistent with your set, but inconsistent with one another

Source

James O. Young (The Coherence Theory of Truth [2013], §1)

Book Ref

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.1

A Reaction

I'm not convinced by this. You first accept P because it is consistent with the set; then Q turns up, which is consistent with everything in the set except P. So you have to choose between them, and might eject P. Your set was too small.

The 23 ideas with the same theme [truth is when propositions effectively fit together]:

4298 All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes]
2115 Everything in the universe is interconnected, so potentially a mind could know everything [Leibniz]
7077 The true is the whole [Hegel]
23030 Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
4538 Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations [Nietzsche]
18972 Ideas are true in so far as they co-ordinate our experiences [James]
18973 New opinions count as 'true' if they are assimilated to an individual's current beliefs [James]
22304 Truth is conceivability, or the systematic coherence of a significant whole [Joachim]
5421 The coherence theory says falsehood is failure to cohere, and truth is fitting into a complete system of Truth [Russell]
19080 Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]
19081 Coherence with a set of propositions suggests we can know the proposition corresponds [Davidson, by Donnellan]
19150 Coherence truth says a consistent set of sentences is true - which ties truth to belief [Davidson]
2765 Rescher says that if coherence requires mutual entailment, this leads to massive logical redundancy [Dancy,J]
2769 If one theory is held to be true, all the other theories appear false, because they can't be added to the true one [Dancy,J]
3585 Coherence needs positive links, not just absence of conflict [Williams,M]
3584 Justification needs coherence, while truth might be ideal coherence [Williams,M]
14713 Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent [Chalmers]
4738 The coherence theory says truth is an internal relationship between groups of truth-bearers [Engel]
18701 The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects [Button]
19076 Coherence theories differ over the coherence relation, and over the set of proposition with which to cohere [Young,JO]
19077 Two propositions could be consistent with your set, but inconsistent with one another [Young,JO]
19078 Coherence with actual beliefs, or our best beliefs, or ultimate ideal beliefs? [Young,JO]
19084 Coherent truth is not with an arbitrary set of beliefs, but with a set which people actually do believe [Young,JO]