Closure, Defeasibility and Conclusive Reasons

Acta Analytica 22 (4):301-319 (2007)
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Abstract

It is argued, on the basis of new counterexamples, that neither knowledge nor epistemic justification (or epistemic rationality ) can reasonably be thought to be closed under logical implication. The argument includes an attempt to reconcile the fundamental intuitions of the opposing parties in the debate

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Claudio de Almeida
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