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Once the fringes are obtained in the Michelson – Morley experiment, when one of the mirrors is moved away gradually, the time for the beam to travel increases and the infringes become dull and finally are lost, showing Temporal Coherence.

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* Kees van Haperen ( 2002 ) Working Towards Information Superiority: Application Coherence for Digitisation Programmes – A Method for Coherently Defining Requirements for Future Command and Control Information Systems.

), The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence BonJour ( Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1989 ), pp. 276 – 92.

Beaugrande and Dressler define a text as a “ communicative occurrence which meets seven standards of textuality ” – Cohesion, Coherence, Intentionality, Acceptability, Informativity, Situationality and Intertextuality, without any of which the text will not be communicative.

* Coherence – defined as thinking, feeling and acting in the same way.