Single Idea 19078

[catalogued under 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth]

Full Idea

One extreme for the specified set is the largest consistent set of propositions currently believed by actual people. A moderate position makes it the limit of people's enquiries. The other extreme is what would be believed by an omniscient being.

Gist of Idea

Coherence with actual beliefs, or our best beliefs, or ultimate ideal beliefs?

Source

James O. Young (The Coherence Theory of Truth [2013], §1)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.2


A Reaction

One not considered is the set of propositions believed by each individual person. Thoroughgoing relativists might well embrace that one. Peirce and Putnam liked the moderate one. I'm taken with the last one, since truth is an ideal, not a phenomenon.

Related Idea

Idea 19076 Coherence theories differ over the coherence relation, and over the set of proposition with which to cohere [Young,JO]