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    It is not the case that The coherence theory of truth entails some form of 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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    • 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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