coherentist
Speech parts
1. coherentist - Noun
2. coherentist - Adjective
Meaning
coherentist (comparative more coherentist, superlative most coherentist)
(philosophy) Of or supporting coherentism
coherentist (plural coherentists)
(philosophy) One who supports coherentism in terms of truth or justification
Examples
Similarly, the pragmatism of William James can be viewed as a coherentist defense against skepticism.
Subsequently, the coherentist approach to science, in which a theory is validated if it makes sense of observations as part of a coherent whole, became prominent due to W. V. Quine and others.