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    Challenges→Doxastic coherentism makes excessive intellectual demands on believers.

    Doxastic coherentism requires believers to form beliefs about the explanatory coherence of their beliefs or the reliability of their belief sources.

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    Since coherentism can be construed in different ways, it is unlikely that there is one single objection that succeeds in refuting all possible versions of coherentism. Doxastic coherentism, however, seems particularly vulnerable to criticism coming from the foundationalist camp. One of these we considered already: It would seem that doxastic coherentism makes excessive intellectual demands on believers. When dealing with the mundane tasks of everyday life, we don’t normally bother to form belief

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