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- adjective philosophy Of or supporting
coherentism - noun philosophy One who supports
coherentism in terms oftruth orjustification
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Examples
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The coherentist might hope to reply to this problem by claiming that there is still a justificatory web: the belief is a memory belief and one might believe that most of one's memory beliefs are true; therefore, this belief is likely to be true and is hence justified.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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Suffice it to say that the kinds of general problems we've seen in standard theories of justified memory belief can apparently be handled within the theoretical means available to foundationalist and coherentist epistemologies.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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As long as I have no defeaters for my memory belief, the negative coherentist tells us, it is justified.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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The Kennedy case might be thought to indicate that foundationalist and coherentist accounts of the justification of memory belief share a common flaw: they are both (at least as typically construed) synchronic rather than diachronic theories.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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(BonJour 1985 never discusses the epistemology of memory in particular, but the view he presents there entails a positive coherentist account; and in BonJour 2002, pp. 183-184, he gives a positive coherentist account of memory justification and explicitly rejects the foundationalism he accepts in other epistemic domains.)
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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Related Entries justification, epistemic: coherentist theories of | justification, epistemic: internalist vs. externalist conceptions of
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The book concludes with a critique of Quine's narrow conception of empirical experience and also a critique of Donald Davidson's views on belief as inherently veridical, in which Davidson plays the role of the pure coherentist.
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Maybe I should make clear that I'm relying on a coherentist rather than a foundationalist at least in the usual ...
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Nevertheless, Davidson is not a coherentist, in any standard sense, about either truth or knowledge.
Donald Davidson Malpas, Jeff 2009
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We can divide coherentist theories into two types: positive and negative.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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