The Exception Makes the Rule: Reply to Howson

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23 (2):213-216 (2009)
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Colin Howson argues that (1) my sociologistic reliabilism sheds no light on the objectivity of epistemic content, and that (2) sorites does not threaten the reliability of modus ponens . I reply that argument (1) misrepresents my position, and that argument (2) is beside the point.

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