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A sceptical paradox concerning epistemic justification

✍ Scribed by James W. Lamb

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1976
Tongue: English
Weight: 608 KB
Volume: 29
Category: Article
ISSN: 0031-8116
DOI: 10.1007/bf00473441

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

None of the expressions 'JP', 'FJP" and 'SP', as I use them, entails that S actually believes that P, though it is entailed in each case that such belief is appropriate to S's epistemic situation at t. 1

Where P and Q are any propositions, F any set of propositions, t any time and S any person, the six propositions of the paradox are as follows:

If JP then either SP or there is a F such that FJP. If FJP then J(FJP).

If FJP and Q belongs to F, then JQ. No proposition is (non-superfluously) justified by an infinitely long chain of evidence.

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