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Full Idea
While coherence may lack the positive role many have assigned to it, ...incoherence plays an important negative role in our enquiries.
Gist of Idea
Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence
Source
Erik J. Olsson (Against Coherence [2005], 10.1)
Book Ref
Olsson,Erik J.: 'Against Coherence' [OUP 2008], p.175
A Reaction
[He cites Peirce as the main source for this idea] We can hardly by deeply impressed by incoherence if we have no sense of coherence. Incoherence is just one of many markers for theory failure. Missing the target, bad concepts...
| 21496 | Mere agreement of testimonies is not enough to make truth very likely [Olsson] |
| 21515 | Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence [Olsson] |
| 21499 | Coherence is only needed if the information sources are not fully reliable [Olsson] |
| 21502 | A purely coherent theory cannot be true of the world without some contact with the world [Olsson] |
| 21512 | Extending a system makes it less probable, so extending coherence can't make it more probable [Olsson] |
| 21514 | Coherence is the capacity to answer objections [Olsson] |