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THE CASE OF PATIENT SMITH: PAIN-BELIEF, EPISTEMIC LUCK, AND ACQUAINTANCE (pages 223-228)

Elliott R. CROZAT ABSTRACT: Can a pain-belief such as “I feel pain” be fallibly justified and luckily true? In this discussion note, I provide a Gettier-type example to show that a belief about one’s own pain can be held on fallible justification and a matter of epistemic luck for its believer. This example underscores the significance of introspection and direct …

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INFERENTIAL INTERNALISM AND THE CAUSAL STATUS EFFECT (pages 429-445)

Nicholas DANNE ABSTRACT: To justify inductive inference and vanquish classical skepticisms about human memory, external world realism, etc., Richard Fumerton proposes his “inferential internalism,” an epistemology whereby humans ‘see’ by Russellian acquaintance Keynesian probable relations (PRs) between propositions. PRs are a priori necessary relations of logical probability, akin to but not reducible to logical entailments, such that perceiving a PR …

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