Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Preface to Universal Characteristic', 'Letter to Weber' and 'Non-foundationalist epistemology'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy
All other human gifts can harm us, but not correct reasoning [Leibniz]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
How can multiple statements, none of which is tenable, conjoin to yield a tenable conclusion? [Elgin]
Statements that are consistent, cotenable and supportive are roughly true [Elgin]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts
I say the irrational is not the cut itself, but a new creation which corresponds to the cut [Dedekind]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
Coherence is a justification if truth is its best explanation (not skill in creating fiction) [Elgin]