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

13 Post author: PeerGynt 24 March 2015 03:11AM

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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.