TY - BOOK ID - 77892537 TI - How Plato's Theory of Truth Explains the Socratic Method PY - 2010 SN - 0773422048 9780773422049 PB - Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Plato. KW - Socrates. KW - Truth -- Coherence theory. KW - Truth KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Coherence theory of truth KW - Coherence theory KW - Socrates KW - Socrate KW - Platon KW - Plato KW - Aflāṭūn KW - Aplaton KW - Bolatu KW - Platonas KW - Platone KW - Po-la-tʻu KW - Pʻŭllatʻo KW - Pʻŭllatʻon KW - Pʻuratʻon KW - Πλάτων KW - אפלטון KW - פלאטא KW - פלאטאן KW - פלאטו KW - أفلاطون KW - 柏拉圖 KW - 플라톤 KW - Платон KW - プラトン KW - Sokrates KW - Sokrat, KW - Sokrates, KW - Suqrāṭ, KW - Su-ko-la-ti, KW - Sugeladi, KW - Sokuratesu, KW - Sākreṭīsa, KW - Socrate, KW - سقراط, KW - Σωκράτης, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892537 AB - This book argues that Plato's Socrates subscribes to a coherence theory of truth, and according to that theory, there is only one fully consistent set of beliefs: the set which contains all and only true members. Thus, not only does inconsistency between two beliefs indicate that at least one of them is false, but the consistency of a belief with the other beliefs in the system suffices for its truth. ER -