Fittingness and Good Reasoning

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 16 (2) (2019)
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Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way have defended a view of good reasoning according to which good reasoning is explained in terms of the preservation of fittingness. I argue that their Fittingness View is incorrect. Not all fittingness-preserving transitions in thought are instances of good reasoning.

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10.26556/jesp.v16i2.782

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