10 ideas
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
3570 | Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M] |
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] |
2748 | A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |