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To greater or lesser degree, people have qualms regarding their ultimate concerns and obtain reassurances from worldview coherency.
A worldview consists of basic assumptions and images that provide a more or less coherent, though not necessarily accurate, way of thinking about the world.
It may be expressed, more or less systematically, in cosmology, philosophy, ethics, religious ritual, scientific belief, and so on, but it is implicit in almost every act.