 Another way of making Kolodny’s point is to note the following. Suppose I find myself believing both \(p\) and \(\neg p\), but that the evidence supports \(p\) (over its negation). If  (NC)  were the operative norm, I could satisfy it “against reason”, i.e., by coming to believe \(\neg p\). But adherence to  (NC) contra the evidence seems like an unjustified “fetish” for “psychic tidiness”. (Kolodny proposes similar maneuvers for other types of putative formal coherence norms, and for norms of logical coherence in particular.)