The term 'internally coherent' is correct and can be used in written English.
This term is typically used to refer to a collection of ideas or arguments that make logical and cohesive sense when considered as a whole. For example, "The author's argument was internally coherent, linking each of the points he made in a logical manner."
Another reason is that every belief — no matter how ridiculous — can cohere with some body of beliefs that is internally coherent.
As a philosophy, it is internally coherent.
Critics should admit that that third way arguments are sometimes surprisingly clear, consistent and internally coherent.
But here's the thing: I decided it was more important to be happy and useful than to have an internally coherent worldview.
He believes the statistic is an uncomfortable reminder of grey areas that the government would rather ignore in favour of a narrative that paints the Khmer Rouge as a small, internally coherent force of evil.
Like a lot of the great British fantasy writers — C. S. Lewis or J. K. Rowling or Philip Pullman — he's very dedicated to realism in the service of fantasy, meaning that he makes little details (the way Chihiro kicks her toe into her shoes, or the way Haku the dragon falls when he's wounded) internally coherent and naturalistic.
An intriguing question then emerges as to whether disputes surrounding realism and antirealism are resolvable in principle, or whether, ultimately, internally consistent and coherent formulations of these positions should be regarded as irreconcilable but nonetheless permissible interpretations of scientific knowledge (Chakravartty 2007a, pp. 16 26).
The essay was tough-minded, internally consistent and coherent, and a real contrast to other Romney foreign policy commentary.
It recommends that UNICEF needs an internally consistent and coherent framework for HRM centered on line managers who are accountable for managing people and performance.
The workshop focused on the definition used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: scenarios are coherent, internally consistent depictions of pathways to possible futures based on assumptions about economic, ecologic, social, political, and technologic development (Nakicenovic et al. 2000).
In this paper, we refer to the following definition of the word 'scenario' given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): 'A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about driving forces and key relationships' (p. 86) [59].
