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Carin ROBINSON ABSTRACT: This paper asks the following question: How is deduction non-ampliative? It answers with a conditional: If deduction is non-ampliative then its premises are non-informative. To establish the truth of this conditional, is the task of this paper. I argue that the non-ampliative nature of deduction entails the non-informative epistemic status of the sentences which are its premises. …

Maura PRIEST ABSTRACT: In Part I, this paper argues that Duncan Pritchard’s version of safety is incompatible with closure. In Part II I argue for an alternative theory that fares much better. Part I begins by reviewing past arguments concerning safety’s problems with closure. After discussing both their inadequacies and Pritchard’s response to them, I offer a modified criticism immune …

Maura PRIEST ABSTRACT: In Part I, this paper argues that Duncan Pritchard’s version of safety is incompatible with closure. In Part II I argue for an alternative theory that fares much better. Part I begins by reviewing past arguments concerning safety’s problems with closure. After discussing both their inadequacies and Pritchard’s response to them, I offer a modified criticism immune …