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Single Idea 9784
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
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Full Idea
You do not improve the truth value of a false proposition by calling attention to a coherent system of propositions of which it is one.
Gist of Idea
A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system
Source
Richard Cartwright (Intro to 'Philosophical Essays' [1987], xi)
Book Ref
Cartwright,Richard: 'Philosophical Essays' [MIT 1987], p.-16
A Reaction
We need to disentangle the truth-value from the justification here. If it is false, then we can safely assume that is false, but we are struggling to decide whether it is false, and we want all the evidence we can get. Falsehood tends towards incoherence.
The
24 ideas
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[principles of mutual support between propositions]:
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2082
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A rational account is essentially a weaving together of things with names
[Plato]
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1672
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Maybe everything could be demonstrated, if demonstration can be reciprocal or circular
[Aristotle]
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17638
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If one proposition is deduced from another, they are more certain together than alone
[Russell]
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2764
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Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions
[Blanshard, by Dancy,J]
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17070
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Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief
[Smart]
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17072
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We need comprehensiveness, as well as self-coherence
[Smart]
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12596
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Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence
[Harman]
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12599
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Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them
[Harman]
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6954
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A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs
[Harman]
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9784
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A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system
[Cartwright,R]
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4262
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If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant
[Goldman]
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12770
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We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods
[Fraassen]
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8877
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We can't attain a coherent system by lopping off any beliefs that won't fit
[Sosa]
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8833
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Why should we prefer coherent beliefs?
[Klein,P]
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8797
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The negation of all my beliefs about my current headache would be fully coherent
[Sosa]
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3700
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Coherence can't be validated by appeal to coherence
[Bonjour]
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8893
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For any given area, there seem to be a huge number of possible coherent systems of beliefs
[Bonjour]
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10237
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Coherence is a primitive, intuitive notion, not reduced to something formal
[Shapiro]
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17596
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Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction
[Thagard]
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17597
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Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative
[Thagard]
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17598
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Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance
[Thagard]
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12801
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Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory
[Foley]
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8616
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How can multiple statements, none of which is tenable, conjoin to yield a tenable conclusion?
[Elgin]
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8617
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Statements that are consistent, cotenable and supportive are roughly true
[Elgin]
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