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Full Idea
The best explanation of the coherence of 'Middlemarch' lies in the novelist's craft. Coherence conduces to epistemic acceptability only when the best explanation of the coherence of a constellation of claims is that they are (at least roughly) true.
Clarification
'Middlemarch' is a novel by George Eliot
Gist of Idea
Coherence is a justification if truth is its best explanation (not skill in creating fiction)
Source
Catherine Z. Elgin (Non-foundationalist epistemology [2005], p.160)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology', ed/tr. Steup,M/Sosa,E [Blackwell 2005], p.160
A Reaction
Yes. This combines my favourite inference to the best explanation (the favourite tool of us realists) with coherence as justification, where coherence can, crucially, have a social dimension. I begin to think this is the correct account of justification.