Reasons and Entailment |
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Authors: | Bart Streumer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA, UK |
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Abstract: | What is the relation between entailment and reasons for belief? In this paper, I discuss several answers to this question,
and I argue that these answers all face problems. I then propose the following answer: for all propositions p
1,…,p
n and q, if the conjunction of p
1,…, and p
n entails q, then there is a reason against a person’s both believing that p
1,…, and that p
n and believing the negation of q. I argue that this answer avoids the problems that the other answers to this question face, and that it does not face any
other problems either. I end by showing what the relation between deductive logic, reasons for belief and reasoning is if
this answer is correct. |
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