#coherentism

[philosophybits]

The narrowest and shallowest stream from the mountainside may conduct us to the open sea; we have but to go forward to go round the world. No one truth stands alone. Any one truth leads to the boundless realms of all truth...

Frederick Douglass, "Pictures and Progress (1864-65)"

[raglanphd]

#verificationism #coherentism #williamjames #pragmatism

[raglanphd]

“Truth is one species of good, and not, as usually supposed, a category distinct from good and not coordinate with it. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite assignable reasons…If there be any life that it is really better we should lead, and if there be any idea which if believed in would help us lead to that life, then it would be really better for us to believe in that idea, unless, indeed, belief in it incidentally clashed with other vital benefits.”

[graspedinthought]

Rawls, Gender, and Epistemology: Some Disjointed Thoughts

Rawls, Gender, and Epistemology: Some Disjointed Thoughts

Rawls derived what he believed to be the principles of justice by means of the method of reflective equilibrium. The method, if applied correctly, ought to arrive at principles that idealized rational decision makers with no prior knowledge of their place in society or their identity therein would agree to. The principles of justice would be the blueprints by which just social and political…

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[hijodeporos]

CRATYLUS: There is a decisive proof that the name-giver did not miss the truth, one which you must accept; for otherwise his names would not be so universally consistent. Have you not yourself noticed in speaking that all names were formed by the same method and with the same end in view? SOCRATES: But that, Cratylus, is no counter argument. For if the giver of names erred in the beginning and thenceforth forced all other names into agreement with his own initial error, there is nothing strange about that. It is just so sometimes in geometrical diagrams; the initial error is small and unnoticed, but all the numerous deductions are wrong, though consistent. Every one must therefore give great care and great attention to the beginning of any undertaking, to see whether his foundation is right or not. If that has been considered with proper care, everything else will follow.

Plato, "Cratylus" Plato rejects Coherentism.

[steadydreamin]

anyone care to help explain to me what a raft has to do with the nature of knowledge?