Consistency is commonly taken to be an interpretive virtue in scholarship, but the rationale behind this assumption is unclear. This paper explores the question of why we should take consistency to be an interpretive virtue; it finds that while considerations of accuracy might render the issue underdetermined, we nevertheless have reason to take consistency to be an interpretive virtue on the basis of considerations of philosophical worth.

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一致性的美德

一致性通常被认为是学术界的一种解释美德，但这种假设背后的基本原理尚不清楚。本文探讨了为什么我们应该将一致性视为一种解释美德的问题；它发现，虽然对准确性的考虑可能会使问题不确定，但我们有理由将一致性视为基于哲学价值考虑的解释美德。