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Ok. So as an exercise, you might....

Strip out all the fancy talk jargon, translate in to everyday common language, and then see if you still have something.

If that works, your reward will be to have expanded your potential audience by millions of times.

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How's this?

It's important to think coherent thoughts. It's also important to think accurate thoughts. A good belief-forming process should help us to form coherent and accurate thoughts.

Some belief-forming processes are better at forming coherent thoughts. Others are better at forming accurate thoughts. This gives rise to a tradeoff: we need to choose how much weight to place on coherence and accuracy in selecting a belief-forming rule.

It's probably best to give some (nonzero) weight to accuracy in choosing belief-forming rules. If that is right, then coherence cannot be the only thing we consider in selecting belief-forming rules.

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Great approach to a very interesting state of affairs with human cognition. I just love this topic and have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about it as have many others. I read the short version of your article: very impressed with your contribution.

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Thanks Michael!

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This has huge practical implications, especially in complex systems and times of rapid change - think globalization, climate change, etc. Trade-off discussions need to be much more sophisticated, and this is a very useful contribution.

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Thanks John!

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