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Single Idea 2769

[catalogued under 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth]

Full Idea

From the point of view of someone with a theory every other theory is false, because it cannot be added to the true theory.

Gist of Idea

If one theory is held to be true, all the other theories appear false, because they can't be added to the true one

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 8.2)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.115