Synonyms:
coherence, coherency
Meaning: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
Synonyms:
coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness
Meaning: the state of cohering or sticking together
Usage examples
Thus the laws of logic supply the skeleton or framework within which the test of coherence applies, and they themselves cannot be established by this test.
But if the law of contradiction itself were subjected to the test of coherence, we should find that, if we choose to suppose it false, nothing will any longer be incoherent with anything else.
Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.