 As we shall see, most, if not all, influential coherence theorists try to avoid these traditional objections by assigning some beliefs that are close to experience a special role, whether they are called “supposed facts asserted” (Lewis, 1946), “truth-candidates” (Rescher, 1973), “cognitively spontaneous beliefs” (BonJour, 1985) or something else. Depending on how this special role is construed, these theories are often classified as versions of weak foundationalism. An advocate of weak foundationalism typically holds that while coherence is incapable of justifying beliefs from scratch, it can provide justification for beliefs that already have some initial, perhaps minuscule, degree of warrant, e.g., for observational beliefs.