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Single Idea 5421
[filed under theme 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
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Full Idea
The coherence theory of truth says falsehood is a failure to cohere in the body of our beliefs, and that it is the essence of a truth to form part of the completely rounded system which is The Truth.
Gist of Idea
The coherence theory says falsehood is failure to cohere, and truth is fitting into a complete system of Truth
Source
Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy [1912], Ch.12)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'The Problems of Philosophy' [OUP 1995], p.70
A Reaction
One could embrace the idea of coherence without accepting the extravagant ninenteenth century Idealists' dream of an ultimate complete Truth (or Absolute). The theory needs a decent account of coherence to get off the ground.
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[truth is when propositions effectively fit together]:
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4298
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All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference
[Descartes]
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2115
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Everything in the universe is interconnected, so potentially a mind could know everything
[Leibniz]
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7077
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The true is the whole
[Hegel]
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23030
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Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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4538
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Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations
[Nietzsche]
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18972
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Ideas are true in so far as they co-ordinate our experiences
[James]
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18973
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New opinions count as 'true' if they are assimilated to an individual's current beliefs
[James]
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22304
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Truth is conceivability, or the systematic coherence of a significant whole
[Joachim]
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5421
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The coherence theory says falsehood is failure to cohere, and truth is fitting into a complete system of Truth
[Russell]
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19080
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Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence
[Blanshard, by Young,JO]
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19081
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Coherence with a set of propositions suggests we can know the proposition corresponds
[Davidson, by Donnellan]
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19150
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Coherence truth says a consistent set of sentences is true - which ties truth to belief
[Davidson]
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2765
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Rescher says that if coherence requires mutual entailment, this leads to massive logical redundancy
[Dancy,J]
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2769
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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]
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3585
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Coherence needs positive links, not just absence of conflict
[Williams,M]
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3584
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Justification needs coherence, while truth might be ideal coherence
[Williams,M]
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14713
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Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent
[Chalmers]
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4738
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The coherence theory says truth is an internal relationship between groups of truth-bearers
[Engel]
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18701
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The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects
[Button]
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19076
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Coherence theories differ over the coherence relation, and over the set of proposition with which to cohere
[Young,JO]
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19077
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Two propositions could be consistent with your set, but inconsistent with one another
[Young,JO]
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19078
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Coherence with actual beliefs, or our best beliefs, or ultimate ideal beliefs?
[Young,JO]
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19084
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Coherent truth is not with an arbitrary set of beliefs, but with a set which people actually do believe
[Young,JO]
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