Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)
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In this paper I defend the claim that justification is closed under conjunction, and confront its most alarming consequence – that one can have justification for believing propositions that are unlikely to be true, given one’s evidence.
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Keywords | Justification Belief Conjunction Closure Single Premise Closure Risk Aggregation |
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