"wrong" sort of ceases to have any meaning in your scenario.
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Imagine if you are fundamentally unhappy and have a great theory why you cannot change it, but you could if you had another theory?
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no. you can always have doubt, you can always rethink. You can even have active process to prove your worldview again and again.
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You can always come up with new theories, but you cannot know if you get closer to ground truth once everything matches.
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Not necessarily: Newtonian mechanics (+ data) was completely self-consistent; until 'paradoxical' data - quantum effects - were witnessed.
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Yes, new data made the old theories inconsistent. (And some people always figured that continuous space stinks.)
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it's not like the majority of people are suffering from too much consistency though :)
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Yes, most people find it more important to be in agreement with their environment than being consistent.
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I doubt, there is any world view, that is entirely consistent within itself. Our biases just disallow us to see the flaws of our own view.
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Try me. ;)
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