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Coherence Theory of Truth A coherence theory of truth states
that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in its
coherence with some specified set of propositions. The coherence
theory differs from its principal competitor, the correspondence
theory of truth, in two essential respects. The competing
theories give conflicting accounts of the relation that
propositions bear to their truth conditions. (In this article,
‘proposition’ is not used in any technical sense. It simply
refers to the bearers of truth values, whatever they may be.)
According to one, the relation is coherence, according to the
other, it is correspondence. The two theories also give
conflicting accounts of truth conditions. According to the
coherence theory, the truth conditions of propositions consist
in other propositions. The correspondence theory, in contrast,
states that the truth conditions of propositions are not (in
general) propositions, but rather objective features