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A being that necessarily exists cannot coherently be thought not to exist.
One of Schopenhauer's most significant assertions is that the four different modes of explanation only run in parallel with each other, and cannot coherently be intermixed.
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When there is a decades-long delay by the prosecuting authorities to arrest or extradite that cannot readily or coherently be explained, the prosecutor's action appears arbitrary.
The argument is that one cannot coherently state that one is a disembodied "brain in a vat" placed there by some "mad scientist".
The power of an image to transmit an idea coherently is so much reduced.
This failure to act coherently is now causing concern among surgeons.
And being able to explain things coherently is very important to people".
If not-being is the opposite of being (i.e., nothing), and if there is a one-to-one correspondence between a name and a thing, then Parmenides was right: we cannot coherently think or talk about not-being.
Williams' point is rather that the whole business of compiling balance-sheets of the utilitarian sort is incompatible with the phenomenon of agency as we know it: "the reason why utilitarianism cannot understand integrity is that it cannot coherently describe the relations between a man's projects and his actions" (UFA: 100).
Richard Bernstein argues that Kant cannot coherently hold both of these theses since we could not be responsible for a propensity that is in us originally and that we cannot be rid of (Bernstein 2002, 11 35).
The problem, thus, is not that we cannot coherently think the supersensible.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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