Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Brand Blanshard, Coherence Theory
13 Nov 2013
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Bradley; brand blanshard: review: problems with the coherence theory, trouble over propositions & states of affairs. The picture seemed to become very complicated as we thought about exactly what was in correspondence not beliefs and things, but propositions and state of affairs: apparently useless for checking truth. Usless for checking on individual cases of truth. We examine the belief, we examine the world but we can only examine our belief! This led us to ask how we do in fact check for truth. We have visually based belief that the monkey is on the carpet, we would check for belief by: a tactilely based belief, an olfactory based belief, an information based belief (peers, the coherence theory of truth. The theory we actually use is the coherence theory. Those propositions are true that are supported by all available evidence, with no evidence contradicting.
