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    Supports→Certain propositions (such as the laws of logic and anti-skeptical presuppositions) are rationally acceptable without evidence, and this entitlement on no grounds constitutes a priori justification.

    Certain cognitive projects could not be pursued without presupposing propositions such as the laws of logic and that we are not brains-in-a-vat.

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    A final view of a priori justification according to which it does not rest on nonexperiential evidence holds that we are entitled to accept certain propositions on no evidence and that entitlement on no grounds or evidence is what a priori justification amounts to. To be entitled to accept, or trust, some presupposition is for it to be rational to accept or trust it, though this is supposed to be different from being justified in believing it. Crispin Wright proposes that the laws of logic and t

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