Coherentism
benefits
-shortcut to belief
-use of other (hopefully) justified beliefs to analyze future ones
problems
-dogmatism
-fixity of belief
-stereotypical thinking
-prejudice
-may allow non-rational associations:bad experiences, emotional scars to color judgement
ex. levitation claim, coldfusion
consistency is a necessary but not sufficient condition for truth
Phenomenalism-we only have access to sense data - words in ordinary language refer to sense data, not an external world. "objects" are permanent possibilities of sensation