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    Coherentist justification—where beliefs mutually support each other—is a legitimate epistemic standard, not merely scientific confirmation.

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    • 1.Foundationalism requires basic beliefs needing no justification, but all beliefs can be rationally questioned, making coherence more fundamental.
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    • 2.Scientific theories themselves form coherent networks where individual claims gain justification through mutual support, not isolation.
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    • 3.Personal knowledge domains like history and ethics lack empirical foundations yet seem rationally justified through internal consistency.
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    • 1.Coherent belief systems can be systematically false: a alternate universe with different physics could have perfectly coherent but incorrect beliefs.
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    • 2.Coherence alone cannot distinguish reliable belief-formation from shared delusion; two people's coherent systems can contradict without coherence explaining which is true.
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    • 3.Perceptual experience provides independent rational constraints that coherence theories struggle to accommodate without external justification.
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