Epistemic Circularity and Epistemic Incommensurability
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If I were to believe you are trustworthy just on your say-so, my reasoning would be infected with what is called epistemic circularity. I would be supposing a source is trustworthy by relying on that very source. Generally speaking, we tend to think this is a very bad idea. It is why we don’t bother asking politicians or salesmen whether they are honest. A well-known line of reasoning stemming from the Ancients—what we might call the criterion argument—claims that epistemic circularity leads to radical scepticism. Baron Reed has recently put the point this way:
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