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It contains the classic statement of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge.
In the history of philosophy Spinoza was the first to elaborate the coherence theory of truth.
A systematic study of Rescher's coherence theory of truth.
Perhaps the best-known objection to a coherence theory of truth is Bertrand Russell's.
In his early work The Nature of Thought, he defended a coherence theory of truth.
One is the coherence theory of truth; the other, the coherence theory of justification.
Coherence theory of truth regards truth as coherence within some specified set of sentences, propositions or beliefs.
Examples include not only the aforementioned Absolute, but also a doctrine of internal relations, a coherence theory of truth, and a concept of a concrete universal.
He is generally credited with the definitive formulation of the coherence theory of truth, in his book The Nature of Truth (1906).
James's pragmatic theory is a synthesis of correspondence theory of truth and coherence theory of truth, with an added dimension.
He argues that in George Kelly's personal construct psychology a combination of correspondence theory of truth and a coherence theory of truth is necessary.
In other words, the set of base concepts in a universe of discourse must form an intelligible paradigm before many theorists consider that the coherence theory of truth is applicable.
Pragmatism and negative pragmatism are also closely aligned with the coherence theory of truth in that any testing should not be isolated but rather incorporate knowledge from all human endeavors and experience.
The elements of his metaphysics show the acknowledged influences of Spinoza's rationalistic monism, Hegel's absolute idealism, Collingwood's logic, and Joachim's coherence theory of truth.
Depending on one's theory of reality, which can be either realist or idealist, one can seek either a correspondence theory of truth or a coherence theory of truth.
However, coherence theories of truth do not claim merely that coherence and consistency are important features of a theoretical system - they claim that these properties are sufficient to its truth.
The main problem for a coherence theory of truth, then, is how to specify just this particular set, given that the truth of which beliefs are actually held can only be determined by means of coherence.
The theory is opposed to the coherence theory of truth which holds that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined by its relations to other statements rather than its relation to the world.
But such an indirect awareness or perception is itself an idea in one's mind, so that the correspondence theory of truth reduces to a correspondence between ideas about truth and ideas of the world, whereupon it becomes a coherence theory of truth.
One of the first among the increasing number of contemporary exponents of philosophical idealism, Rescher has been active in the rehabilitation of the coherence theory of truth and in the reconstruction of philosophical pragmatism in line with the idealistic tradition.
The theory is applicable to all organizationally closed or homeostatic processes that produce endurance and coherence (also in the sense of Rescher Coherence Theory of Truth with the proviso that the sets and their members exert repulsive forces at their boundaries) through interactions: evolving, learning and adapting.
According to one view, the coherence theory of truth is the "theory of knowledge which maintains that truth is a property primarily applicable to any extensive body of consistent propositions, and derivatively applicable to any one proposition in such a system by virtue of its part in the system" (Benjamin 1962).