Raz points out that while coherence accounts of justified belief take each person's belief set as their 'base' or as that which is to be made coherent, coherence accounts of law cannot be person-relative in this way, on pain of failing to offer an account which is in touch with the concrete reality of law in the jurisdiction under consideration.
Regarding the question of what is to be made coherent in coherence accounts of legal reasoning, Raz 1994a contends that coherence accounts, when applied to law, require a 'base' or something which is to be made coherent, which differs in character in some crucial respects from the sort of base which features in coherence accounts in other areas of philosophy.
The next issues to consider are (1) what is to be made coherent in coherence accounts of legal reasoning, and (2) what role coherence plays in explaining or justifying judicial decisions on such accounts.
In considering the role of coherence in legal reasoning, a final point to mention is that of how much of the law is to be made coherent according to various jurisprudential accounts granting a role to considerations of coherence.
On the one hand, it is unclear whether the realist's defence of his position can be made convincing; on the other, it is unclear whether the anti-realist's position can be made coherent.
Energy policy too needs tough decisions if it is to be made coherent, both in response to high prices and to climate change, especially if nuclear power is to be revived.
Thus, we can see that the large positive score of a conserved residue (histidine) is made by coherent contributions from multiple singular components whereas the scores of residues that are not conserved may be positive but small due to incoherent contributions.
However, the role played by this hyper-inflammatory phase in the progression of sepsis and its prognostic is to be understood in the context of an accompanying anti-inflammatory response and immunosuppression state, and much effort is made in elaborating a coherent vision of these opposite and complex events [38 43].
The feat in these, and particularly the Sonata No. 2, is making them coherent.
Unfortunately, that confusion is never made coherent (or even interesting), and the audience is left to wonder what just happened.
