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In epistemology, there are two types of coherentism: the coherence theory of truth, and the coherence theory of justification (also known as epistemic coherentism).

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  • Definition
  • History
  • The regress argument
  • Foundationalism's response
  • Coherentism's response
  • Problems for coherentism
  • See also
  • Epistemological theories
  • Related ideas
  • Theories of truth
  • References
  • Bibliography
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In epistemology, there are two types of coherentism: the coherence theory of truth, and the coherence theory of justification (also known as epistemic coherentism).

Coherent truth is divided between an anthropological approach, which applies only to localized networks ('true within a given sample of a population, given our understanding of the population'), and an approach that is judged on the basis of universals, such as categorical sets. The anthropological approach belongs more properly to the correspondence theory of truth, while the universal theories are a small development within analytic philosophy.

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