Veritism, Epistemic Risk, and the Swamping Problem

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (4):761-774 (2019)
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Veritism says that the fundamental source of epistemic value for a doxastic state is the extent to which it represents the world correctly: that is, its fundamental epistemic value is deter...

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