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    Challenges→Any adequate theory of value must postulate some ultimate end outside of practice as a standard against which the value of acts as means can be judged.

    A coherentist standard of value—where acts are judged by their systemic consequences within ongoing experience—avoids regress without positing a fixed external end.

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    • 1.Traditional foundationalism requires an arbitrary stopping point; coherentism avoids infinite regress by evaluating values within interconnected systems.
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    • 2.Living systems naturally exhibit self-reinforcing coherence; values that harmonize across experience align with how organisms actually function.
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    • 3.External fixed ends (God, Nature, Reason) have historically proven contestable; systemic coherence provides a more universal evaluative framework.
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    • 1.Coherence alone cannot distinguish between a harmonious delusion and genuine value; a perfectly integrated false belief system is still false.
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    • 2.Without external reference, coherentism reduces values to whatever a given system consistently produces, making sadistic or oppressive systems equally valid.
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    • 3.The claim avoids regress by deflection rather than resolution; 'systemic consequences' itself requires criteria for what counts as good consequences.
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