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    Challenges→Coherence alone is not sufficient to make moral beliefs justified.

    The internal coherence of a set of beliefs is not evidence of any relation to anything outside the beliefs.

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    Premise (11) is opposed by moral coherentists (e.g. Brink 1989, Sayre-McCord 1996, Sinnott-Armstrong 2006, Chapter 10, pp. 220–251). Recent coherentists emphasize that they do not infer a belief from itself in a linear way. Instead, a moral belief is supposed to be justified because it coheres in some way with a body of beliefs that is coherent in some way. Still, moral skeptics deny that coherence is enough to make a moral belief justified. One reason is that the internal coherence of a set of

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