Crispin Wright's transmission-failure thesis establishes that warrant does not always transmit across valid inference when the conclusion is a precondition for trusting the premise.

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Crispin Wright(The philosopher whose strategy is being discussed): A contemporary British philosopher who works on logic, mathematics, and language. He's known for trying to find new ways to solve old problems in philosophy of mathematics.
Precondition(as what recognitive practices are for conceptual content): Something that must exist or happen first, before something else can exist or happen.
Transmission-failure thesis(the main idea being explained): Wright's theory that sometimes you can have good reasons to believe a starting claim, and even though your logical reasoning is perfectly valid, you can't actually pass that confidence over to your conclusion.
Transmit (in epistemology)(the central action in the thesis): In philosophy, when confidence or justification 'transmits' across reasoning, it means your good reasons for believing the starting point carry over to support your conclusion.

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