Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (4):537 - 562 (2003)
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Modest Infinitism
Jeremy Fantl
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Infinitism, a theory of justification most recently developed and defended by Peter Klein, is the view that justification is a matter of having an infinite series of non-repeating reasons for a proposition. I argue that infinitism is preferable to other theories (like foundationalism) in that only infinitism can plausibly account for two important features of justification: 1) that it admits of degrees and 2) that a concept of complete justification makes sense.
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Keywords | Contemporary Philosophy General Interest |
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ISBN(s) | 0045-5091 |
DOI | 10.1080/00455091.2003.10716554 |
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