ABSTRACT
THE theory of truth as coherence has been strongly advocated by many idealists, and has been equally strongly criticized by many realists. We shall here examine it from our own viewpoint.
Dr. Ewing writes: "Coherence must not be confused with self-consistency. Anybody who believed in a thoroughly pluralistic world in which every fact was logically independent of every other would still hold that his view was selfconsistent in that the different facts did not contradict each other, but he certainly would not be maintaining the coherence theory but rather its opposite. What is meant is not merely that the different facts do not contradict each other, which would be compatible with their being all quite indifferent to each other logically, but that they stand in some positive logical relation of entailment to each other."1
