Philosophical Studies 173 (4):1103-1118 (2016)
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Many epistemologists have recently defended views on which all evidence is true or perceptual reasons are facts. On such views a common account of basic perceptual reasons is that the fact that one sees that p is one’s reason for believing that p. I argue that that account is wrong; rather, in the basic case the fact that p itself is one’s reason for believing that p. I show that my proposal is better motivated, solves a fundamental objection that the received view faces, and illuminates the nature of reasons for belief
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Keywords | Reasons Inference Knowledge Belief Justification Circularity |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11098-015-0532-z |
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