The paper begins with a brief overview of sense and sense-making with reference to cohesion, coherence and intertextuality. Based on a word-by-word close analysis, it charts the semantic coherence of a classical Chinese poem, Ye Yu Ji Bei by Li Shangyin, followed by a mapping of the text’s metaphorical coherence in terms of ontological metaphors. Using the poem as a case example, the paper exam...

We continually face the problem of making sense of the world by resolving conflicting reports from multiple sources of information. This is particularly so if we attempt to formulate Qualitative Safety1 Arguments. Traditional logic offers little to assist in this process. In every day reasoning we usually assume that, without information to the contrary, we should use all information from all s...

This presentation is about (i) formal, (ii) synchronic, (iii) epistemic (iv) coherence (v) requirements. (i) Formal coherence is to be distinguished from other sorts of coherence discussed in contemporary epistemology (e.g., in some empirical, truth/knowledge-conducive sense [1]). Ideally, whether a set of judgments is coherent (in the present sense) should (in principle) be determinable a prio...