I find it quite arguable whether or not “reflective equilibrium” is a real thing that actually happens in our cognition, or a little game played by philosophy academics. Actual cognitive dissonance caused by holding mutually contradicting ideas in simultaneous salience is well-evidenced, but that’s not exactly an equilibrium across all ideas we hold, merely across the ones we’re holding in short-term verbal memory at the time.
I find it quite arguable whether or not “reflective equilibrium” is a real thing that actually happens in our cognition, or a little game played by philosophy academics. Actual cognitive dissonance caused by holding mutually contradicting ideas in simultaneous salience is well-evidenced, but that’s not exactly an equilibrium across all ideas we hold, merely across the ones we’re holding in short-term verbal memory at the time.