A puzzle about withholding
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چکیده
This paper presents a puzzle about justification and withholding. The puzzle arises in a special case where experts advise us to not withhold judgment. My main thesis is simply that the puzzle is genuinely a puzzle, and so leads us to rethink some common assumptions in epistemology, specifically assumptions about the nature of justification and doxastic attitudes. Section 1 introduces the common assumptions. Section 2 presents the puzzle case. Section 3 assesses the puzzle case. Section 4 explains the choice we’re faced with. Sections 5 and 6 consider and reject some proposed solutions, and in the process refine and clarify the choice we’re faced with. Section 7 considers and rejects a miscellany of different proposed solutions.
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