〔Is consistency of beliefs a virtue? Is it something we should spend time tryng to achieve?〕To some extent this is a question in a vacuum. Nobody is deliberately incosistent in his beliefs. It is simply impossible to believe, fully and without reservation, twi things which you know are inconstent with each other. ('Cobsistency', p. 15)
Logic is about consistency. ('Consistency', p. 13)
〔A〕 set of beliefs is called consistent if these beliefs could all be true together in some possible situation. ('Consistency', p. 13)
(London: Penguin Books, 1977)
Logic is about consistency. ('Consistency', p. 13)
〔A〕 set of beliefs is called consistent if these beliefs could all be true together in some possible situation. ('Consistency', p. 13)
(London: Penguin Books, 1977)