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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Coherence Theory of Truth

The cash value of ideas was the slogan that I was talking about. The same thing. It's like the things which in the end, how does this belief play out in my life, in my actions? What good is it for me? In a scientific context, that will often be seen as linked to empiricism. And so that would be the practice of the theory of truth. A belief is true just in case it would fit into that very, very complex. No doubt will always be hypothetical, but hypothetical totality of beliefs.

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