For a defence of the coherence theory against Walker's version of the specification objection, see Young (2001).
The conclusion from this study was that high dental anxiety predicted low oral health-related quality of life and that a strong sense of coherence protected against low oral health-related quality of life.
The barrier height of escaping from the oscillation attractor on the landscape provides a quantitative measure of the robustness and coherence for oscillations against intrinsic and external fluctuations.
But, then again, I wonder what the director has against coherence, soap, Westerns, American movies, Apache Indians, aliens, or Vice President Biden?
This includes bringing some coherence to the campaign against Islamic State; improving deterrence against Russia; preparing for the consequences of the talks aimed at preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons; and supporting the new government in more-or-less forgotten Afghanistan.At the same time, he must aim to leave America's defence establishment in better shape than he found it.
Here we will briefly note two central arguments against the coherence of ontological emergence.
Cook Wilson did not argue directly against the coherence theory, as Russell was famously to do (Russell 1910, 131 146), but took instead the opposite, foundationalist stance.
For another line of attack against the coherence of unrestricted quantification, one may ask what exactly is a domain of quantification supposed to be.
There are various arguments against the coherence or applicability of rigidity with respect even to concrete object designators (for discussion, see Fitch 2004, pp. 102 10), but there is relative calm.
What counts as one's own, though — what counts as contained within the prudentially significant metaphysical unit — given reductionism, is defined by psychological continuity (Brink argues against the coherence or practical feasibility of both atoms and selves as the basic units).
