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    Challenges→Doxastic coherentism makes excessive intellectual demands on believers.

    When dealing with mundane tasks of everyday life, people do not normally bother to form beliefs about the explanatory coherence of their beliefs or the reliability of their belief sources.

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    Reliability (of belief sources)(as used in epistemology)
    How trustworthy or accurate a source of information is—like whether a friend always tells the truth or a news outlet gets facts right.
    belief(Hume's account of causal inference, Treatise I.III.7–8)
    An idea that is almost as vivid and forceful as the impression of which it was once a copy
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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    explanatory coherence(property of information sets that increases when new information explains previously anomalous combinations)
    The degree to which items in an information set mutually explain or account for one another, including the resolution of apparent anomalies

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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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