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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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Is Coherence Part of Intelligence?

Roland Martin: Coherence is the idea that when you conclude that I posit this is true because it's part of the best explanation. You got to take into account everything you know, the whole coherence set. So reasoning is part of intelligence, but it's not everything there is to intelligence. Intelligence is a priority. It might make sense just to talk about coherence here. He says he was inspired by Gilbert Harmon and Wolf from Wilford Sellers talking about explanatory coherence.

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