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    The coherence theory of truth entails some form of idealism

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    • 1.If there is nothing to truth beyond what is to be found in an appropriate system of beliefs, then one's beliefs constitute the world
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    • 2.If one's beliefs constitute the world, that amounts to idealism
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    • 1.A coherentist account of truth-conditions is compatible with a realist ontology if the coherent system is constrained by mind-independent causal inputs.
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    • 2.Hilary Putnam's internal realism demonstrates that anti-metaphysical realism about truth does not collapse into idealism about the existence of the external world.
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    • 3.The inference from 'truth is system-relative' to 'beliefs constitute the world' conflates epistemological holism with metaphysical idealism.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.If coherence is understood as tracking the logical structure of reality rather than constructing it, the theory entails rationalist realism, not idealism.
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    The coherence theory of truth is typically associated with idealism

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    It is possible to be an idealist without adopting a coherence theory. (For instance, many scholars read Bradley as holding a version of the identity theory of truth. See Baldwin (1991) for some discussion.) However, it is hard to see much of a way to hold the coherence theory of truth without maintaining some form of idealism. If there is nothing to truth beyond what is to be found in an appropriate system of beliefs, then it would seem one’s beliefs constitute the world in a way that amounts to
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