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Coherence in Thought and Action

Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and

Psychology

Kim Sterelny and Robert A. Wilson, editors

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and

Evolution , Susan Oyama, Paul E. Grifﬁths, and Russell

D. Gray, editors, 2000

Coherence in Thought and Action , Paul Thagard, 2000

Coherence in Thought and Action

Paul Thagard

A Bradford Book

MIT Press

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London, England

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thagard, Paul.

Coherence in thought and action / Paul Thagard.

p. cm.—(Life and mind)

“A Bradford book.”

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-262-20131-3 (alk. paper)

1. Truth—Coherence theory. I. Title. II. Series.

BD 171 .T45 2000

121—dc21

00–035503