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In Harry Binswanger's Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, he mentions the need to check the coherence and consistency of a new item with its "nearest relatives" forming its immediate context. He suggests four questions to prompt one into identifying the facts most closely related to the idea: How does the new item relate to the things in the next wider category (its genus)? What are its immediate causes (both of the thing and of one's knowledge of it)? What are its direct applications and/or implications? What are other examples or instances of the new item? I've thought of a question that might also serve this purpose: What is the whole in relation to which this new item is an aspect or part? I'm wondering whether anyone else can think of questions that would be useful for this purpose.