The term appears in Roderick Chisholm's "The Problem of the Criterion", and in the work of his student, Ernest Sosa ("The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge").
Termi esiintyy Roderick Chisholmin kriteerin ongelmaa käsittelevässä artikkelissa "The Problem of the Criterion" (1973), sekä hänen oppilaallaan Ernest Sosalla ("The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge", 1980).