Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Truth-maker Realism: response to Gregory' and 'Non-foundationalist epistemology'

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5 ideas

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

8616	How can multiple statements, none of which is tenable, conjoin to yield a tenable conclusion? [Elgin]

8617	Statements that are consistent, cotenable and supportive are roughly true [Elgin]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Maybe truth-making is an unanalysable primitive, but we can specify principles for it [Smith,B]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

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

8618	Coherence is a justification if truth is its best explanation (not skill in creating fiction) [Elgin]