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Ideas for 'Ways of Worldmaking', 'Consciousness,Represn, and Knowledge' and 'works'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification

9329	Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer]
	Full Idea: Justification is coherence with a background system which, when irrefutable, converts to knowledge.
	From: Keith Lehrer (Consciousness,Represn, and Knowledge [2006])
	A reaction: A problem (as the theory stands here) would be whether you have to be aware that the coherence is irrefutable, which would seem to require a pretty powerful intellect. If one needn't be aware of the irrefutability, how does it help my justification?

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

17660	Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman]
	Full Idea: Discovery often amounts, as when I place a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, not to arrival at a proposition for declaration or defense, but to finding a fit.
	From: Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.7)
	A reaction: I find Goodman's views here pretty alien, but I like this bit. Coherence really rocks.