The safe, the sensitive, and the severely tested: a unified account.

This essay presents a unified account of safety, sensitivity, and severe testing. S’s belief is safe iff, roughly, S could not easily have falsely believed p, and S’s belief is sensitive iff were p false S would not believe p. These two conditions are typically viewed as rivals but, we argue, they i...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 200; no. 5; pp. 1 - 24
Main Authors: Gardiner, Georgi, Zaharatos, Brian
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2022
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost