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    It is not the case that Brand Blanshard, the coherence theory's most systematic defender, explicitly maintained a realist commitment to a mind-independent rational structure the coherent system must track.

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    • 1.Adding realist commitments to coherence theory smuggles in correspondence theory's problems without solving coherence theory's core issues.
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    • 2.If truth fundamentally requires tracking mind-independent structure, coherence becomes derivative, undermining coherence theory's core claim.
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    • 3.Blanshard provides no principled account of how coherence systems access or verify mind-independent rational structures.
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    • 1.Coherence alone cannot distinguish between equally coherent but contradictory systems, so realist constraints are necessary.
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    • 2.Blanshard's position avoids idealism by anchoring truth to mind-independent structures that constrain rational coherence.
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    • 3.Scientific progress presumes objective rational structures exist; coherence theory needs realism to explain why some systems succeed.
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