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Replies: on norms of belief and knowledge

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These replies to commentators on my work focus on the nature of epistemic norms, on the nature of truth and on the nature and value of knowledge. A normative account of belief and knowledge is committed to substantial and objective epistemic norms. But not everyone agrees on their form. I try here to reply to some doubts raised by my critics.

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Engel, P. Replies: on norms of belief and knowledge. Synthese 194, 1555–1564 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1358-3

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