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The Review Paradox: On The Diachronic Costs of Not Closing Rational Belief Under Conjunction
Author(s) -
Leitgeb Hannes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/nous.12020
Subject(s) - conjunction (astronomy) , closure (psychology) , argument (complex analysis) , closing (real estate) , epistemology , philosophy , rationality , positive economics , economics , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , astronomy
We argue that giving up on the closure of rational belief under conjunction comes with a substantial price. Either rational belief is closed under conjunction, or else the epistemology of belief has a serious diachronic deficit over and above the synchronic failures of conjunctive closure. The argument for this, which can be viewed as a sequel to the preface paradox, is called the ‘review paradox'; it is presented in four distinct, but closely related versions.