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    An argument is non-transmissive of justification when condition (iii+) cannot be satisfied under any epistemic circumstance, regardless of whether conditions (i) and (ii) are satisfied.

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    • 1.Some arguments are incapable of transmitting justification depending on a given evidence under any epistemic circumstance.
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    • 2.Condition (iii+) requires that the belief in the conclusion be justified in virtue of the satisfaction of conditions (i) and (ii).
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    • 3.If condition (iii+) cannot be satisfied no matter the epistemic circumstances, the argument fails to transmit justification.
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    • 1.Whether justification transmits depends on the epistemic position of the reasoner, which varies across contexts, making 'any epistemic circumstance' too strong.
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    • 2.Crispin Wright's work on entitlement shows that some seemingly non-transmissive arguments (e.g., Moorean shifts) can confer justification when the reasoner has prior entitlement to the premises.
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    • 3.A condition that fails under most epistemic circumstances is not thereby impossible to satisfy, so non-transmission must be assessed contextually, not categorically.
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    • 1.Peter Davies and Paul Dretske's reliabilist frameworks ground justification in truth-conducive processes, not in the structural relationship between conditions (i), (ii), and (iii+).
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    • 2.If a reliable cognitive process yields a justified conclusion belief, the failure of condition (iii+) reflects a limitation of the internalist framework, not a genuine epistemic barrier to transmission.
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    Condition (iii+), (i), and (ii)(logic and argumentation)
    Specific requirements or criteria that need to be met; the numbers refer to a numbered list of conditions defined elsewhere that determine whether an argument works properly.
    Epistemic
    "Epistemic" relates to knowledge—how we know things, what counts as knowledge, and whether we can trust what we believe to be true. It comes from the Greek word for knowledge and is used to describe questions about the reliability and validity of our beliefs and understanding. For example, "epistemic humility" means acknowledging the limits of what you can actually know for certain.
    Epistemic circumstance(epistemology)
    Any situation involving knowledge or belief—basically, the context in which someone knows or believes something.
    non-transmissive(Applied to Zebra* and the disjunctive template)
    A structure or template is non-transmissive of first-time justification when conditions for acquiring first-time justification for a conclusion cannot all be satisfied when that structure is instantiated.
    transmissive of justification(Epistemic transmission of justification across entailment)
    An argument is transmissive of justification based on evidence E when the justification for the conclusion Q is grounded in (i) E justifying premise P and (ii) the known entailment of Q by P; i.e., justification flows through the argument's inferential structure

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    More interesting cases of transmission failure—or, for some authors (e.g., Beebee 2001), the only genuine cases of transmission failure—are those in which condition (iii+) is not satisfied because it could not have been satisfied, no matter whether or not conditions (i) and (ii) have been satisfied. These cases concern arguments non-transmissive of justification depending on a given evidence, i.e., arguments incapable of transmitting justification depending on that evidence under any epistemic c
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