Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong
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Internal consistency of the science as a body of knowledge. "Consistency with the truth" is better expressed by the simple adjective "true".
It's not consensus either. Consistency is a property of a theory (or a set of theories). Consensus is a property of a set of experts.
No, but it will provide impetus and motivation to find out which one is wrong.