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THE PERMISSIBLE NORM OF TRUTH AND “OUGHT IMPLIES CAN” (pages 433-440)

Xintong WEI ABSTRACT: Many philosophers hold that a norm of truth governs the propositional attitude of belief. According to one popular construal of normativity, normativity is prescriptive in nature. The prescriptive norm can be formulated either in terms of obligation or permission: one ought to or may believe that p just in case p is true. It has been argued …

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