Sentence examples for coherence justification from inspiring English sources

However, in the context of Conditional Independence, Weak Foundationalism does imply Coherence Justification.

This does not prevent many authors from claiming that coherence justification is an indication or "criterion" of truth.

Religious traditions are so comprehensive and all-encompassing in their claims that almost every domain of philosophy may be drawn upon in the philosophical investigation of their coherence, justification, and value.

Since the former does not entail the latter, coherentists, to the extent that they follow BonJour, need not worry about the joint inconsistency of Conditional Independence, Nonfoundationalism and Coherence Justification.

(As noted in Olsson, 2005, section 3.5, the matter is somewhat complicated by the fact that Lewis adopted a notion of independence that is weaker than Conditional Independence. Ironically, Lewis's weaker notion turns out to be compatible with the combination of Nonfoundationalism and Coherence Justification).

Thus the immediate threat to coherentism presented by the observed inconsistency of the three original conditions has been neutralized, even though a critic might point out that the defense is weak since it has not been shown that Coherence Justification follows from the two new conditions.

As recently confirmed by James Van Cleve (2011), the conclusions supported by these considerations are that coherence can boost justification or credibility that is already there without being able to create such justification or credibility from scratch.

The coherence theory of justification should be distinguished from the coherence theory of truth.

There is an obvious objection that any coherence theory of justification or knowledge must immediately face.

This argument, like Blanshard's, depends on a coherence theory of justification.

Coherence, and (personal) justification, results when all objections have been met.