10 ideas
21515 | Incoherence may be more important for enquiry than coherence [Olsson] |
21514 | Coherence is the capacity to answer objections [Olsson] |
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] |
21502 | A purely coherent theory cannot be true of the world without some contact with the world [Olsson] |
21512 | Extending a system makes it less probable, so extending coherence can't make it more probable [Olsson] |
20643 | Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell] |
16634 | I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes] |
3635 | Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes] |
3634 | We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes] |