Coherent Worldviews

You have no standard of truth to measure your worldview against, and so no way of knowing whether any new idea has pushed you in the direction of Truth. That’s not to say that Truth doesn’t exist, just that it’s really hard to observe.

New ideas are forced to swirl around in our minds, trying with futility to find a comfortable arrangement where bargains can be made with competing ideas on the basis of contextual probabilities so that the new idea and its competitors may finally retreat to a quiet, conflict-free resting space.

This is why I believe the phrase “coherent worldview” a misnomer. A worldview is only coherent if your ideas make compromises with one another.

Sorry for getting all epistemological on your ass.