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PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
Volume 55, Issue 220, Pages 419-436Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00408.x
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Internalists tend to impose on justification higher-level requirements, according to which a belief is justified only if the subject has a higher-level belief (i.e., a belief about the epistemic credentials of a belief). I offer an error theory that explains the appeal of this requirement: analtically, a belief is not justfied if we have a defeater for it, but contingently, it is often the case that to avoid having defeaters, our beliefs must sake a higher-level requirement. I respond to the objection that externalists who endorse this error theory will be forced to accept a radical form of scepticism.
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