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    It is not the case that Coherentist justification (Neurath, Quine) shows beliefs can be mutually supporting without any single foundational anchor.

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    • 1.Mutually supporting false beliefs can be perfectly coherent; coherence alone cannot distinguish truth from elaborate fiction.
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    • 2.Coherentism struggles to explain how belief systems connect to reality at all without some grounding in perception or fact.
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    • 3.Without foundational constraints, competing coherent systems (Ptolemaic vs. Copernican astronomy) lack principled choice criteria.
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    • 1.Foundationalism requires identifying self-evident or infallible beliefs, but no belief withstands all philosophical skepticism.
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    • 2.Scientific theories succeed through mutual support among hypotheses, observations, and methods—not by resting on certainty.
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    • 3.Coherence explains why we rationally revise even confident beliefs when they conflict with broader systems we hold.
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