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  • Thomas Kelly
چکیده

1. The Strength of Uniqueness At an intuitive level, one immediate attraction of Permissivism is this: Uniqueness is an extremely strong thesis. We can think of Uniqueness as one possible answer to the following question: How much slack exists between the evidence and what it’s reasonable to believe given the evidence? In these terms, the friend of Uniqueness thinks that there is never any slack, ever. On the other hand, the Permissivist thinks that in at least some possible cases, there is at least a little bit of slack. As this suggests, a Permissivist might very well think that there are many cases in which there is no slack at all, where there is one and only one response to the evidence that’s the fully rational response.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012