Finally, philosophers including C. D. Broad dismissed the coherence of a maximally great being, proposing that some attributes of greatness are incompatible with others, rendering "maximally great being" incoherent.
Reflecting on his twelve years as governor, Mr. Perry said that he had "no regrets" except for being incoherent the entire time.
The panel accused the UN of being "incoherent, fragmented and under resourced" on gender, condemnation that led to the creation of UN Women, which officially began in January.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Reflecting on his twelve years as governor, Mr. Perry said that he had "no regrets" except for being incoherent the entire time.
Never mind that Russia is itself being incoherent in continuing to insist that Kosovo's independence from Serbia is still illegal (a stance driven in part by its wish to avoid setting a precedent for Chechnya or other restive republics within Russia).
If so, skeptical slow switch arguments end up being incoherent.
In any case, it is clear that the trouble with being incoherent cannot be that it will lead to losses.
Some versions of the DBA appeal to such scenarios as a preliminary to attempting to establish the general irrationality of being incoherent.
Whatever the conclusion about the irrationality of being incoherent though, with idealizing assumptions about the connection between degrees of belief and the evaluation of options, the DBA succeeds in establishing incoherence as an evaluative defect.
One tactic has been to argue that incoherence is irrational in so-called forced betting situations, and from there that the prohibition against being incoherent in such situations can be universalized (Jackson and Pargetter 1976).
Indeed a bookie could reverse the direction of the bets that would guarantee a loss for an incoherent agent so as to guarantee her a win, or there could be some sort of other prize that might be awarded for being incoherent.
