A justificatory method that cannot resolve rival systems of induction collapses into coherentism, which cannot escape epistemic circularity about which coherent system tracks truth.

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Coherentism(Epistemology; theory of epistemic justification): A doxastic theory of justification holding that only beliefs can serve as evidence, and that justification derives from the internal coherence of a belief system
Justificatory method(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge)): A system or process for figuring out whether a belief is reasonable to hold and explaining why you should trust it.
Rival systems(as used in philosophy of science): Competing theories or frameworks that offer different explanations for the same phenomena.
epistemic circularity(Alston's argument that all doxastic practices, including sense-perception, share this feature): The condition in which the reliability of a doxastic practice cannot be established by any means independent of the practice itself.
induction(Offered as the mechanism behind empirical universality.): The empirical method by which observations are generalized into rules; yields only comparative or assumed universality, not strict universality.
tracks truth(asking whether a belief actually corresponds to reality): Follows or reliably points toward what is actually true, like a path that leads somewhere real.

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