 Central in Rescher’s account, as laid out in Rescher (1973), his most influential book on the subject, is the notion of a truth-candidate. A proposition is a truth-candidate if there is something that speaks in its favor. Rescher’s truth-candidates are related to Lewis’s “supposed facts asserted”. In both cases, the propositions of interest are prima facie rather than bona fide truths. Although Rescher’s 1973 book is entitled A Coherence Theory of Truth, the purpose of Rescher’s investigation is not to investigate the possibility of defining truth in terms of coherence but to find a truth criterion, which he understands to be a systematic procedure for selecting from a set of conflicting and even contradictory truth-candidates those elements which it is rational to accept as bona fide truths. His solution amounts to first identifying the maximal consistent subsets of the original set, i.e., the subsets that are consistent but would become inconsistent if extended by further elements of the original set, and then choosing the most “plausible” among these subsets. Plausibility is characterized in way that reveals no obvious relation to the traditional concept of coherence. While the traditional concept of coherence plays a role in the philosophical underpinning of Rescher’s theory, it does not figure essentially in the final product. In a later book, Rescher develops a more traditional “system-theoretic” view on coherence (Rescher 1979).