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Ideas for Hesiod, Alvin I. Goldman and Anon (Job)

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

4262	If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant [Goldman]
	Full Idea: If mere consistency is our aim in achieving a coherent set of beliefs, then new evidence and experiments are irrelevant.
	From: Alvin I. Goldman (The Internalist Conception of Justification [1980], §VIII)
	A reaction: An important reminder. What epistemic duty requires us to attend to anomalous observations, instead of sweeping them under the carpet?