(July 8, 2023 at 4:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 8, 2023 at 2:16 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, what is "coherentism", according to you? As far as I know, it's a rejection of the correspondence theory of the truth, motivated primarily by the correspondence theory of the truth supposedly being unable to account for counter-factual hypotheticals (but see the answer I received on StackExchange arguing there are indeed ways to account for counter-factual hypotheticals within the correspondence theory of the truth). Coherentism can be summarized as "A true statement is one that is coherent with other statements one believes."
You seem to be confusing 'coherentism' with 'the coherence theory of truth'.
Coherentism is the position that for a belief to be justified, it must belong to an internally coherent system of beliefs (it is important to remember that a belief can be justified and still untrue). This is manifestly NOT the same as confirmation bias, which is the willful rejection or ignoring of facts and evidence which do not support one's beliefs. This is why you claim to be unaware of the evidence supporting the Yugoslav Wars.
Boru
So, what is the difference between coherentism and confirmation bias?
