Ideas from 'Coherence: The Price is Right' by Paul Thagard [2012], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Southern Journal of Philosophy' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction

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Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative

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Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude

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Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation

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The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability?