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    Challenges→If [P1] is true, we cannot be justified in believing [P1].

    Acceptance of [P1] is justified only if [P1] satisfies the very requirement it articulates.

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    If [P1] is true, we cannot be justified in believing [P1].It is difficult to see how the truth of a normative proposition like [P1] could ...Therefore [P1] does not satisfy [P1].[P1] is a normative proposition about when a belief is justified.
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    Belief (B) is justified88%E1 could justify P only if E1 is itself justified, requiring E2, which...85%Knowledge requires justification.82%[P1] is a normative proposition about when a belief is justified.80%

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    Even if there were sufficient intuitive support for [P1], defending this argument by such means would contravene both strands of the non-self-undermining constraint (Pust 2001). According to [P1], S’s non-introspective belief that p is justified only if the proposition believed plays a role in the best explanation of S’s mental states. No demonstration of explanatory relevance is involved in the two methods of justifying [P1] just discussed. Rather, each approach would take the mere fact that th

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