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    It is not the case that A subject's hypothetical doubt about a conclusion cannot retroactively alter the evidential relations that originally justified the premises.

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    • 1.Justification depends partly on the evidential standards a subject applies; revised doubts can reveal those standards were initially too lax.
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    • 2.Hypothetical doubt can expose hidden defeaters (alternative explanations, biases) that existed but weren't considered, genuinely altering justified status.
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    • 3.Epistemic justification is partly normative—what we ought to believe given our evidence—and rational reconsideration can change what 'ought' requires.
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    • 1.Evidential relations are constituted by objective facts about how beliefs connect to reality, independent of any subject's subsequent attitudes.
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    • 2.If doubt could retroactively weaken justification, the same evidence would simultaneously justify and fail to justify a belief, which is contradictory.
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    • 3.Justification is a historical property of how evidence supported a premise when initially formed, not a present mental state that can be revised.
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