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Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'On Duties ('De Officiis')' and 'Against Coherence'

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

21515

Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence [Olsson]

21514

Coherence is the capacity to answer objections [Olsson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

21496

Mere agreement of testimonies is not enough to make truth very likely [Olsson]

21499

Coherence is only needed if the information sources are not fully reliable [Olsson]

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A purely coherent theory cannot be true of the world without some contact with the world [Olsson]

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Extending a system makes it less probable, so extending coherence can't make it more probable [Olsson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

6273	Knowledge depends on believing others, which must be innate, as inferences are not strong enough [Putnam]

6274	Empathy may not give knowledge, but it can give plausibility or right opinion [Putnam]