Full Idea
An advantage of coherentism is that it directs attention away from the individual's struggle to achieve knowledge (the classical conception), and points to knowledge as a social phenomenon, shared, and increased by means of sharing.
Gist of Idea
Coherentism moves us towards a more social, shared view of knowledge
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 8.3)
Book Reference
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.119
A Reaction
This is exactly the view which I now embrace. Internal coherence is the basis, but that spills out into the community, and into books, and into the relativity of social acceptance.