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    DB's negative specification—that basic beliefs are not in... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→DB alone is insufficient to fully account for the justification of basic beliefs

    DB's negative specification—that basic beliefs are not inferentially justified—is itself a substantive positive constraint that delimits the justificatory structure.

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    • 1.Negative constraints (what something is not) can meaningfully structure systems by ruling out possibilities and thereby organizing remaining conceptual space.
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    • 2.Specifying that basic beliefs lack inferential justification substantively commits one to foundationalism, which is a positive epistemological thesis about justification's architecture.
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    • 3.Without this constraint, the distinction between basic and non-basic beliefs collapses, making coherentism or infinitism viable—so the constraint does real limiting work.
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    • 1.A merely negative specification (what something is *not*) lacks content unless paired with positive claims about what basic beliefs *are* or how they're justified.
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    • 2.The claim conflates logical negation with substantive constraint; saying 'not inferentially justified' is parasitic on prior positive concepts and adds no independent structure.
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    • 3.Many epistemological frameworks (including some coherentist variants) accept this negation without it generating the structural consequences the claim attributes to it.
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