ABSTRACT
A principle can serve the purposes of truth, however, while lacking explanatory merit. The Pythagorean Theorem suffices to obtain the truth about distances, whatever its explanatory limitations. We shall correct the defect in the explanatory coherence theory by giving truth its due. Coherence with background system is determined by what it is reasonable to accept based on this system. A concern for truth and nothing but the truth drives the engine of justification. How does an acceptance system generate justification? It does so by telling us how reasonable it is to accept something in the quest for truth. The acceptance system tells it is more reasonable to accept one thing than another and more reasonable to accept something on one assumption than on another when we seek truth, that is, seek to accept something if and only if it is true.
