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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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Coherence Theory of Truth

Coherence theories of truth pick up on aspects of our mental lives which are important like we do in fact have goals and beliefs do help us to fill those goals. So for that reason the coherence theory must be picking up on something because it's more or less just saying that particular virtue of your belief system being coherent is the one which makes a difference for truth. That's fair everyone wants to be coherent just whether or not that's. The same point on. And so what you'll find is that theories of truth tends to like something which kind of attracts maybe people to deflationism - they're able to recover whatever nice things you want to say about one theory of truth within the other

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