Tags / 3 quotes from 2 sources
#coherence
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Determinism of the structural drift is not predictability
This structure-determinism does not entail predictability. We are determined but not pre-determined. Determinism means that the structural coherences between systems are satisfied.
Science is social coherence
Instead of certainty we need social coherence. This is for example what science is. Every ideology, game, club etc. is a domain of social coherences defined by the consensus criteria for acceptability of statements.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Character without consistency is not character
If character doesn’t mean the tendency to display the same kind of traits across different situations, then it means nothing. Character without consistency is not character at all. There is clearly something to this, but one can still ask how much consistency character…