The Preface Paradox Generalized
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-4012.2018.1.31456Keywords:
Paradoxo do Prefácio, Inconsistência, Racionalidade, JustificaçãoAbstract
The preface paradox is a presumed counterexample to the claim that consistency is a necessary condition for rationality or justification. This article develops the idea, first suggested by Earl Conee (2009), that the inconsistent and rational beliefs might be formed or based on very different kinds of evidence. This task will be executed in four parts. In the first one, I will briefly introduce and explain the preface paradox itself. Right after, I will present the other examples: the event, airplane, the meeting and partial memory. Then I will identify the common estructure of all these examples, and will suggest that defeasibility theory is a useful tool for analyzing them. In the end, I will make a diachronic analysis of one example, and then show that is harder to solve the paradox than we usually think.
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