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Are There Any Good Reasons?

Are There Any Good Reasons?

‘Against the Philosophical Tide: Essays in Popperian Critical Rationalism’ (Yeovil: Critias, 2020), 2020
Danny  Frederick
Abstract
David Miller argues that there are no good reasons, either sufficient or insufficient. I show that most of his arguments are invalid or unsound. Several of his arguments depend upon the false claim that every deductively valid argument is circular. I accept one of Miller's arguments for the conclusion that there are no good reasons which are less-than-sufficient. I accept one of his arguments to the conclusion that there are no probative sufficient reasons. But I explain how there are epistemic sufficient reasons which are relative to the game of science and how their existence is consistent with Miller's main contentions while avoiding Miller's apparently anarchic account of our knowledge.

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