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(2014) Synthese 191 (12).

Where there are internal defeaters, there are "confirmers"

Ralf-Thomas Klein

pp. 2715-2728

There is widespread consensus that there are undercutting and rebutting defeaters that diminish or destroy the warrant of a belief B. I argue that there are counterparts of defeaters: the counterparts of undercutting defeaters are “requirement fulfillment beliefs”, the counterparts of rebutting defeaters are “consistency beliefs”. These beliefs confirm the warrant of B, I therefore call them “confirmers”.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0415-4

Full citation:

Klein, R. (2014). Where there are internal defeaters, there are "confirmers". Synthese 191 (12), pp. 2715-2728.

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