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Updated. (Didn't occur to me it would be so easy.)
It is unnecessarily black-and-white point of view on consistency. I can improve my consistency a lot without becoming completely consistent. In practice we all compartmentalise.
I did certainly not dispute that (if I understand correctly what you mean, which I am not much sure about).
The point was, subjective probability is a degree of belief in the proposition; saying "it must be either 0 or 1 by laws of mathematics" rather implies that it is an objective property of the proposition. This seems to signal that you use a non-subjectivist (not necessarily frequentist, my fault) interpretation of probability. We may be then talking about different things. Sorry for ad hominem impression.