What is your answer?

Which of these formulas is better?

    { 1 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then if you accept A then you ought not to accept B.
    { 2 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then you ought not to combine accepting A with accepting B.
    { 3 } - Both mean the same thing.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

Which of these formulas is better?

This formula can have bizarre implications. Suppose that A and B are inconsistent and yet you hold both. Since you hold A, and A is inconsistent with B, you ought not to accept B. And since you hold B, and B is inconsistent with A, you ought not to accept A. So the principle absurdly tells you to give up both beliefs!

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2 is correct!

Which of these formulas is better?

    { 1 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then if you accept A then you ought not to accept B.
    { 2 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then you ought not to combine accepting A with accepting B.
    { 3 } - Both mean the same thing.

This don't-combine formula forbids an inconsistent combination -- but doesn't tell you how to rearrange your beliefs if they turn out to be inconsistent.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

Which of these formulas is better?

    { 1 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then if you accept A then you ought not to accept B.
    { 2 } - If A and B are inconsistent, then you ought not to combine accepting A with accepting B.
    { 3 } - Both mean the same thing.

No they don't!

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