In any case, one natural kind of authenticity would be grounded in. Those who work out aworldview stay true to our rational capacities and have a genuine philosophy if only by default, as opposed to having inconsistent ideas that reduce the worldview to absurdity and thus to nothing. Existential authenticity, though, would require that the worldview be both logically and emotionally coherent, meaning that the intellectual viewpoint must reflect the person's total self, her ideas as well as her character and experience. For that reason, the worldview would receive extra points for itseach person is unique and so an authentic worldview will bemoreover, a set of ideas that derives mainly from some hackneyed social conventions would be phony in that it wouldn’t express the believer’s creative potential and it wouldn’t likely follow from her personal judgment. For example, she might accept the popular ideas due to the ulterior motive of wanting to belong to a certain crowd. This is, of course, part of the attraction of trusting in any of the major religions. Also, even more bonus points would be awarded to a worldview thatas far as we can discern the facts especially from science, since a pure fiction or delusion would be false in the epistemic respect. This is to say, roughly, that the worldview should, at a minimum, be. Finally, full existential merit would go not to hypocrites but to those whothe principles of their worldview.