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The Gypsy Lawer 30 Years Later
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- Issue Date
- 2000
- Citation
- Journal of cognitive science, Vol.1 No.1/2, pp. 55-66
- Abstract
- Suppose John has good evidence for believing P. However, he ignores the evidence and believes P for some bad reasons. He is not justified in holding the belief, because his believing P is not based on the evidence. One plausible account of the basing relation is a causal account. According to the causal account, the belief P is based on evidence E at t if and only if either E causes the belief P at t or E counterfactually causes the belief P at t in the sense that E would cause the belief P if it had not been caused by its actual cause. Apparently, the counterfactual clause is introduced to accommodate beliefs that are ill-formed initially but justified by later identified or later collected evidence.
- ISSN
- 1598-2327
- Language
- English
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