Apologies for the curmudgeonliness, but it really bugs me when people say things like this. The actual version of this statement that is true is
All coherent actions can be modeled as arising from beliefs that correspond to probability estimates
which is different and much weaker, as now we can argue about how important coherence is relative to other desiderata. One such desideratum is correspondence to reality, which I believe is Locaha’s point above. Personally, I would much rather have incoherent beliefs that correspond to reality than coherent beliefs that do not correspond to reality.
Apologies for the curmudgeonliness, but it really bugs me when people say things like this. The actual version of this statement that is true is
which is different and much weaker, as now we can argue about how important coherence is relative to other desiderata. One such desideratum is correspondence to reality, which I believe is Locaha’s point above. Personally, I would much rather have incoherent beliefs that correspond to reality than coherent beliefs that do not correspond to reality.
I don’t think this belief has much correspondence to reality.