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Assess Coherentism Coherentism is all about fitting our beliefs to make a network of them; they are all linked and fit in together. E.g. I receive a postcard but there is nothing on it apart from my address and the postmark. The only person I know who will send me a postcard with nothing on is my friend Ellis but the postcard is from America and he lives in Ireland. Furthermore I know Ellis' handwriting and it doesn't look like this. This means that my hypothesis of Ellis sending me the postcard doesn't cohere with the other things that I believe. Then I remember Ellis was going to visit another of my friends, Adam in America, the handwriting also looks like Adam's. From this I form the hypothesis that Ellis got Adam to address the postcard but forgot to write anything on it. My beliefs are now coherent and I...

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