 Until this point, we have only looked at how a group belief may arise from, or be determined by, its member beliefs. We have not yet considered how—or whether—a group entity can achieve some significant level of epistemic “status”, or “achievement”. Believing something that is true is certainly worth something, but if one gets the truth only by luck or accident, that is not very significant. Similarly, simply having a set of coherent beliefs isn’t of unqualified significance, since mere coherence can arise from pure imagination coupled with inconsistency avoidance. Philosophers have long agreed that one of the most important types of epistemic attainment is knowledge. But what is knowledge? Almost everyone agrees that mere true belief isn’t knowledge. Again, true beliefs can sometimes arise fortuitously, by pure guessing or wishful thinking.