COHERENCE: THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
abstract This article is a response to Elijah Millgram's argument that my characterization of coherence as constraint satisfaction is inadequate for philosophical purposes because it provides no guarantee that the most coherent theory available will be true. I argue that the constraint satisfaction...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 42 - 50 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring2012
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| Sumario: | abstract This article is a response to Elijah Millgram's argument that my characterization of coherence as constraint satisfaction is inadequate for philosophical purposes because it provides no guarantee that the most coherent theory available will be true. I argue that the constraint satisfaction account of coherence satisfies the philosophical, computational, and psychological prerequisites for the development of epistemological and ethical theories. |
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