If you are seeking to only have true beliefs, then the closer you keep to descriptive epistemology, the better. You would favor a conservative epistemology, in which you avoid believing beliefs unless you have to, or unless they pass the strictest tests. But if you are seeking to know the overall truth better, the way that all the truths work together, it might be better to believe more apparent truths, at the risk of believing some false individual truths, because to understand the bigger picture requires more data. One might ask, what good are high quality individual truths if you don't know the bigger picture in which they fit? They could be deceptive truths, for not being placed in the right context.
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