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    It is not the case that A credence threshold of 1 (or sufficiently near 1) constitutes a purely formal, degree-based criterion that is both necessary and sufficient for full belief.

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    • 1.Belief involves normative commitment to truth; credence is merely probabilistic confidence and cannot ground the distinctive normative properties of belief.
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    • 2.Context determines sufficiency; 0.95 credence suffices for belief in mundane cases but fails in high-stakes contexts requiring credence >0.999.
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    • 3.Threshold accounts face the sorites problem: why is credence X sufficient but X-ε insufficient? No formal boundary resolves this principled vagueness.
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    • 1.Belief involves a disposition to act; credence near 1 reliably produces action-guiding commitments indistinguishable from categorical belief.
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    • 2.Full belief lacks non-arbitrary degree distinctions; a formal threshold elegantly avoids stipulating what makes 0.99 insufficient versus 0.999 sufficient.
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    • 3.Psychological evidence shows subjects treat high-credence propositions as settled for practical reasoning, mirroring the phenomenology of full belief.
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