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INFERENCE AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE (pages 77-98)

Benjamin WINOKUR ABSTRACT: A growing cohort of philosophers argue that inference, understood as an agent-level psychological process or event, is subject to a “Taking Condition.” The Taking Condition states, roughly, that drawing an inference requires one to take one’s premise(s) to epistemically support one’s conclusion, where “takings” are some sort of higher-order attitude, thought, intuition, or act. My question is …

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