 Coherentists usually respond that justification doesn’t actually go in cycles. In fact, it isn’t even really a relationship between individual beliefs. Rather, a belief is justified by being part of a larger body of beliefs that fit together well, that cohere. Justification is thus global, or holistic. It is a feature of an entire body of beliefs first, and only of individual beliefs second, in virtue of their being part of the coherent whole. When we trace the justification for a belief back and back and back until we come full circle, we aren’t exposing the path by which it’s justified. Rather, we are exposing the various interconnections that make the whole web justified as a unit. That these connections can be traced in a circle merely exposes how interconnected the web is, being connected in both directions, from \(A\) to \(B\) to …to \(N\), and then from \(N\) all the way back to \(A\) again.