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Ideas for 'Ways of Worldmaking', 'Set Theory and related topics (2nd ed)' and 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

2797	As coherence expands its interrelations become steadily tighter, culminating only in necessary truth [Dancy,J]
	Full Idea: As our system grows in coherence, the interrelations between its parts becomes tighter and tighter;… at the limit contingent truth vanishes, leaving only necessary truth.
	From: Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 14.7)

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

17651	Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman]
	Full Idea: We can have words without a world but no world without words or other symbols.
	From: Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.3)
	A reaction: Goodman seems to have a particularly extreme version of the commitment to philosophy as linguistic. Non-human animals have no world, it seems.