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Full Idea
As our system grows in coherence, the interrelations between its parts becomes tighter and tighter;… at the limit contingent truth vanishes, leaving only necessary truth.
Gist of Idea
As coherence expands its interrelations become steadily tighter, culminating only in necessary truth
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 14.7)
Book Ref
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.225