Cogency,Warrant Transmission‐Increase and non‐Ideal Thinkers |
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Authors: | Manuel Pérez Otero |
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Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy, University of BarcelonaLOGOS (Research Group in Analytic Philosophy) |
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Abstract: | Contemporary debates concerning warrant transmission take for granted this thesis: when warrant transmission fails the argument fails. I challenge this thesis. An argument with conclusion C, addressed to subject S, can be cogent in the sense that recognition that the premises entail (or make highly likely) C can rationally foster in S the belief in C, without the warrant for C necessarily being gained (or reinforced) by such recognition. A key idea is to accept that some arguments should be understood in a way that involves the abandonment of two characteristic idealizations imposed on rational thinkers by Bayesian modelling. |
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