ABSTRACT
We humans both love and crave consistency. We seek it out, find it, and we impart it. We criticize, reject, or try to ignore that which we find inconsistent or incongruous. Sometimes we go so far as to claim that whatever is inconsistent is incoherent or meaningless. Consistency is among the fundamental elements we use not only in organizing our world but also in experiencing it at all. We seek consistency at many levels, from the highly abstract structure of the theories we discover and construct to the very concrete stimuli we perceive (and also construct).
