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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Prior entitlement(what you need to have for these arguments to work)
Being automatically justified in believing something before or independently of a particular argument—a baseline justification you start with.
Reasoner(the person evaluating the argument)
The person who is thinking through an argument and forming beliefs based on reasoning.
Transmissive(describes how justification spreads through arguments)
The ability of justification to 'pass along' from one belief to another—if you're justified in believing A, and A supports B, then you become justified in B.
entitlement(Wright's account of a priori justification)
Being rational to accept or trust a presupposition on no grounds or evidence; distinguished from being justified in believing a proposition.