This could be a very interesting question: Does every algebraic theory T with decidable word problem admit a coherent presentation? Here a presentation is "coherent" if it is such when T is considered as a monoidal category. See, for instance @article{DBLP:journals/corr/CurienM17, author = {Pierre{-}Louis Curien and Samuel Mimram}, title = {Coherent Presentations of Monoidal Categories}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/1705.03553}, year = {2017}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03553}, timestamp = {Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:42:32 +0200}, biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/journals/corr/CurienM17}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org} } Cheers, Andrew