The family is aptly named one of paradoxes, as they seem to lead to incoherent conclusions, such as: "everything is true".
Such an informal approach may lead to incorrect and incoherent conclusions, and there is, therefore, a need to synthesize evidence in a coherent manner.
This fluidity makes for a dizzy, sometimes invigorating, often incoherent mixture.Summing upThe conclusion must be that Mr Bush's policies are somewhat exceptionalist, increasing his appeal to the red states and reducing it in blue ones.
Reading the lips of Rudd and the chancellor, George Osborne, it is hard to escape the conclusion that these incoherent, unconvincing policies seem driven more by ideology and casual expediency than by a serious assessment of what Britain needs.
Thus, the participant in the Wason task is assumed to draw coherent and optimal conclusions from uncertain information, but the researcher who analyzes the data is satisfied with conclusions that are incoherent and suboptimal (Kruschke, 2010).
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.
This may be achieved either through a priori means (demonstrating X to be incoherent, say) or through a posteriori methods (investigating the world and coming to the conclusion that nothing satisfies X).
The conclusion we are invited to draw is that Humean theories of practical reasoning are incoherent.
It's a simple argument: a world that is complex requires a poetry that is complex; a world that is somewhat incoherent may actually demand a poetry that is itself incoherent; a world in which no conclusions apply may even revel in its inconclusiveness.
So while they don't adopt Unger's nihilist conclusions, two contemporary theorists agree with him that vague concepts are in some sense incoherent.
