Abstract
Haack offers her reflections on some of the many roles played by some of the concepts of the coherence family. "Concepts," in the plural; for "coherence" has whole raft of meanings, distinct though sometimes subtly interrelated, and is applied to a whole range of very different things like what a logician means by speaking of the consistency of an axiomatic system, for example, is not what a literary critic means by speaking of the consistency of a fictional character or the congruity of the subplot with the overall theme of a novel. Thus she disentangles some of the multiple meanings and multiple objects of "coherent;" then looking more closely at a field where coherence concepts have sometimes been asked to play a central role she presents her assessment of "coherentism" in epistemology.
