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Belief (B) is justified — Carmelics

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1.Belief (B) carries epistemic privilege such as infallibility, indubitability, or incorrigibility
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2.A belief that cannot be false, doubted, or corrected by others possesses epistemic privilege
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1.Infallibility and indubitability are properties of belief-forming processes, not of belief content itself (Alston, 1980).
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2.A belief can be psychologically irresistible yet epistemically unjustified, as shown by cases of compulsive false certainty.
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3.Epistemic privilege, even if real, confers justification only within a foundationalist architecture that itself requires independent justification (BonJour, 1978).
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1.Incorrigibility by others is a social epistemic property, not a truth-tracking one; isolation from correction is a marker of dogmatism, not justification (Wittgenstein, On Certainty §204).
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2.Descartes' cogito demonstrates that indubitability is far narrower in scope than ordinary justified belief, leaving most beliefs unjustified under this criterion.
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Let us turn to the question of where the justification that attaches to (B) might come from, if we think of basicality as defined by DB. Note that DB merely tells us how (B) is not justified. It says nothing about how (B) is justified. DB, therefore, does not answer that question. What we need, in addition to DB, is an account of what it is that justifies a belief such as (B). According to one strand of foundationalist thought, (B) is justified because it can’t be false, doubted, or corrected by

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