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A coherentist account won't work for the a priori. The reason is that a priori knowledge is essential to provide the very ingredients of the concept of coherence (one of which is logical consistency) and thus could not without vicious circularity be itself based on coherence. Accordingly, some other sort of account is needed for a priori knowledge, if such knowledge-and arguably any knowledge-is to exist at all.