Full Idea
I shall make use of the admittedly imprecise notions of consilience, simplicity, analogy and fitting into a web of belief, or in short of 'coherence'.
Clarification
'consilience' is the convergence of varied evidence
Gist of Idea
Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief
Source
J.J.C. Smart (Explanation - Opening Address [1990], p.06)
Book Reference
'Explanation and Its Limits', ed/tr. Knowles,Dudley [CUP 1990], p.6
A Reaction
Coherence sounds like a family of tests, rather than a single unified concept. I still like coherence, though.
Related Idea
Idea 17071 An explanation is better if it also explains phenomena from a different field [Smart]