![]() In a system of belief as large as the culture of a society, there are many conflicting beliefs. But consistency is only possible for relatively modest logical and mathematical systems. The coherence theory is close to the consistency theory of truth. ![]() In this case, coherence is one way to justify a belief. In traditional epistemology, the coherence may be internal to a personal set of beliefs that are accessible to a subject. In analytic language philosophy, the truth of a proposition depends on its agreement with some larger set of propositions, ideally all known true propositions and any logical inferences from those propositions. Charles Sanders Peirce's theory of pragmatic truth is the coherent inter-subjective agreement of an open community of inquirers. Perfect coherence is not to be expected, of course. In scientific theories, every new observational fact must be integrated with existing facts to make them maximally coherent. In philosophies of idealism, all the ideas or beliefs are said to cohere with one another, perhaps because the world is reason itself or created by a rational agent. Adolphe Quételet Jürgen Renn Juan Roederer Jerome Rothstein David Ruelle Tilman Sauerīiosemiotics Free Will Mental Causation James SymposiumĪ coherence theory bases the truth of a belief on the degree to which it coheres ("hangs together") with all the other beliefs in a system of beliefs (typically one person's beliefs, but it could be any body of knowledge). ![]()
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