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    It is not the case that Coherence of one's beliefs is not sufficient for epistemic justification

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    • 1.For coherence to justify beliefs, one would already need to be justified in believing that one's beliefs are coherent
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    • 2.For coherence to justify beliefs, one would already need to be justified in believing that coherence makes one's beliefs likely to be true
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    • 3.This requirement generates a regress or circularity that coherence alone cannot resolve
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A perfectly coherent system of beliefs can be entirely disconnected from the external world, as BonJour's 'isolation objection' demonstrates.
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    • 2.Coherent fiction—like Tolkien's Middle-earth—satisfies all internal consistency requirements yet produces no epistemic justification for beliefs about reality.
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    • 3.Justification requires some constraint from mind-independent facts, which coherence among mental states alone structurally cannot provide.
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    • 1.Multiple mutually exclusive belief systems can each achieve maximal internal coherence, as Neurath's own coherentism acknowledges with the 'alternative coherent systems' problem.
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    • 2.If coherence alone were sufficient for justification, contradictory worldviews held by different agents would be simultaneously and equally justified.
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    • 3.A justification condition that licenses contradictory beliefs about the same subject matter fails the basic epistemic norm that justified belief must track truth.
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