When symmetrically competent evaluators reach opposing conclusions from shared evidence, the higher-order evidence they generate cancels rather than compounds, leaving the original epistemic situation unchanged.

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Cancels rather than compounds(as used in epistemology and logic): When two things cancel, they neutralize each other and eliminate their effects; when they compound, they build on each other and strengthen. Here it means opposing expert opinions weaken rather than strengthen each other.
Epistemic situation(epistemology): The facts about what someone knows or believes, and the circumstances around that knowledge—basically, everything relevant to whether a person actually knows something.
Symmetrically competent evaluators(as used in epistemology): People who have equal skills, knowledge, and ability to understand and judge a situation fairly—like two equally qualified experts.
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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