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On a Puzzle About Experts, Screening-Off and the Rarity of Defeat

McCutcheon, Randall (2019) On a Puzzle About Experts, Screening-Off and the Rarity of Defeat. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We introduce a ``rarity of defeat'' principle, valid in cases of deference to an expert, to address intuitions involved in a puzzle of Nissan-Rozen concerning epistemic deference and evidential screening-off.


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McCutcheon, Randallrmcctchn@memphis.edu0000-0002-5305-3662
Subjects: General Issues > Evidence
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User: Dr. Randall G. McCutcheon
Date Deposited: 17 May 2019 14:13
Last Modified: 17 May 2019 14:13
Item ID: 16025
Subjects: General Issues > Evidence
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date: 17 May 2019
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16025

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