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SYNTHESE
Volume 195, Issue 9, Pages 3857-3875Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1422-z
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Justification; Probability; Normalcy; Risk minimisation theory; Normic theory
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/M009610/1]
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/M009610/1, AH/L009633/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- AHRC [AH/L009633/1, AH/M009610/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Theories of epistemic justification are commonly assessed by exploring their predictions about particular hypothetical casespredictions as to whether justification is present or absent in this or that case. With a few exceptions, it is much less common for theories of epistemic justification to be assessed by exploring their predictions about logical principles. The exceptions are a handful of closure' principles, which have received a lot of attention, and which certain theories of justification are well known to invalidate. But these closure principles are only a small sample of the logical principles that we might consider. In this paper, I will outline four further logical principles that plausibly hold for justification and two which plausibly do not. While my primary aim is just to put these principles forward, I will use them to evaluate some different approaches to justification and (tentatively) conclude that a normic' theory of justification best captures its logic.
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