Justification and the growth of error.
It is widely thought that in fallible reasoning potential error necessarily increases with every additional step, whether inferences or premises, in the same way that the probability of a lengthening conjunction shrinks. However, this has the absurd consequence that consulting an expert, proof-check...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 165; no. 2; pp. 527 - 552 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2013
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