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Full Idea
Davidson's Cogito has the form 'I think, therefore I am generally right'.
Gist of Idea
Davidson's Cogito: 'I think, therefore I am generally right'
Source
report of Donald Davidson (Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge [1983], 16.6) by Tim Button - The Limits of Reason
Book Ref
Button,Tim: 'The Limits of Realism' [OUP 2013], p.171
A Reaction
On the whole I would subscribe to this Cogito (as Button calls it), from an evolutionary perspective. There would just be no point in thought if it wasn't generally right in everyday activity.