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    Challenges→The Equal Weight View is self-defeating

    A defender of the Equal Weight View who discovers enough epistemically well-positioned peers who reject the Equal Weight View would, by following the view's own prescriptions, be required to abandon the Equal Weight View

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    Equal Weight View(Epistemology of disagreement)
    An epistemological view holding that upon discovering disagreement with an epistemic peer, one should give equal weight to the peer's belief and revise one's own belief toward theirs
    Peers(general philosophy discussion)
    People who are roughly equal to you in intelligence, education, or relevant expertise on a particular topic.
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    Rules or instructions that a theory tells you that you should follow or do.
    Self-defeating(describes how using fictional dialogue would contradict the goal of accurate portraiture)
    An action that works against its own purpose—like trying to stay dry by jumping in a pool.
    epistemically well-positioned(Used to identify whose disagreement is epistemically significant under peer-disagreement views)
    An individual who has the relevant competence, access to evidence, and reasoning ability to form a reliable judgment on a given question

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    A prominent objection to the Equal Weight View and other views that prescribe doxastic conciliation is that such views are self-defeating. For expressions of this objection, see Elga 2010, Frances 2010, O’Connor 1999, Plantinga 2000a and 2000b, Taliaferro 2009, Weatherson 2014, and Weintraub 2013. For responses, see Bogardus 2009, Christensen 2009, Elga 2010, Graves 2013, Kornblith 2013, Littlejohn 2013, Matheson 2015b, and Pittard 2015. In brief, there is disagreement about the epistemic signif

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