Pollock and Sturgeon on defeaters
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Pollock and Sturgeon on defeaters
Scott Sturgeon has recently challenged Pollock’s account of undercutting defeaters. The challenge involves three primary contentions: (1) the account is both too strong and too weak, (2) undercutting defeaters exercise their power to defeat only in conjunction with higher-order beliefs about the basis of the lower-order beliefs whose justification they target, and (3) since rebutting defeaters ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1073-5