The Review Paradox: On The Diachronic Costs of Not Closing Rational Belief Under Conjunction

Noûs 48 (4):781-793 (2013)
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We argue that giving up on the closure of rational belief under conjunction comes with a substantial price. Either rational belief is closed under conjunction, or else the epistemology of belief has a serious diachronic deficit over and above the synchronic failures of conjunctive closure. The argument for this, which can be viewed as a sequel to the preface paradox, is called the ‘review paradox'; it is presented in four distinct, but closely related versions

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Hannes Leitgeb
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