Faith and epistemic coherence.
It is commonplace to have faith that democracy will win out in the end, or that a friend will pass her exam. But it seems odd to have faith that all vixens are female foxes, or that 2 + 2 = 4. This paper offers an account of why some propositions, but not others, can be objects for propositional fai...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2025
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