Entitlement and Mutually Recognized Reasonable Disagreement
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What Feldman’s students thought was that “while they had their own beliefs, the others had reasonable beliefs as well.” (p. 200) And Feldman rightly points out that this view is “widespread” in the contemporary world. This liberal epistemological view, in other words, is a piece of contemporary common sense, at least in societies where political liberalism holds sway. Here is a sympathetic formulation:
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