No foundations for metaphysical coherentism.
Recently, metaphysical coherentism has been propounded as an alternative to metaphysical foundationalism and infinitism. The view replaces the picture of reality as a hierarchy of levels with that of a network of objects or facts standing in symmetric or, more generally, cyclic relations of metaphys...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 9; pp. 2503 - 2535 |
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Sep2025
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