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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'On 'Physics'' and '(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

6937	Reason aims to discover the unknown by thinking about the known [Peirce]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman]

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Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman]