TheAncientGeek comments on Request for Steelman: Non-correspondence concepts of truth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 March 2015 09:45:13AM 1 point [-]

You've got coherentism confused with holism.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 March 2015 10:35:30AM 0 points [-]

Is holism even a thing?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 March 2015 11:20:29AM 1 point [-]

Yes. So is Google.

You can have holism without coherence where you require that the whole of science is true by correspondence, but the parts aren't.. Inasmuch as it is correspondence, it isnt coherence.