רמב"ן — ויאמרו טובה הארץ אשר ה' אלהינו נתן לנו

Q — Moshe rebukes Israel for not believing that the land was good. But Ramban himself asks the obvious question: if (per Chazal) only Yehoshua and Calev testified that the land was good, "ראוי שיאמינו לעשרה יותר מן השנים" — what's the complaint? They were just following the majority.

A — Ramban's principled answer: the rule of follow-the-majority does NOT apply when majority opinion contradicts both Hashem's prior testimony AND the witness of the great שלוחים וצדיקים. Israel should have suspected the ten spoke from "מורך לב" and at minimum been awakened to the contradiction. The דעת הקב"ה plus the testimony of צדיקים create an epistemic obligation that overrides numerical majority — going as a סומא בארובה after the crowd is no defense. Ramban supports this with Rambam quoting Aristotle (מורה הנבוכים ב, טו): a thing proven by mofet doesn't gain truth when all wise men agree, nor lose it when all the world dissents.