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Thank you for that brevity. It makes clear, what can then also be seen in the original, a striking omission: any injunction to pursue the truth, to make one's beliefs correspond with reality. Which highlights the problem with (4): updating towards consistency -- also called decompartmentalising -- while neglecting to update towards reality is a short road to crackpottery.