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