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    Epistemic justification is a function of the evidence ava... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An argument is non-transmissive when the subject's doubt about the conclusion rationally requires the subject to adopt new background assumptions on which the premises are no longer justified by the relevant evidence

    Epistemic justification is a function of the evidence available at the time of belief formation, not of subsequent suppositional revisions.

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    • 1.Justification must be evaluable at the time of belief; what happens later cannot retroactively alter epistemic status then.
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    • 2.Agents can only be responsible for beliefs based on accessible evidence when formed, not hypothetical future scenarios.
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    • 3.Allowing later revisions to determine justification makes epistemic evaluation dependent on contingent future facts beyond agent control.
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    • 1.Evidence's justificatory power often depends on how beliefs cohere with expanding information, not isolated snapshots.
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    • 2.Subsequent counterfactual scenarios reveal whether initial evidence was genuinely strong or merely seemed compelling due to bias.
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    • 3.Scientific justification involves testing against future data; refusing to integrate it treats beliefs as sealed rather than provisional.
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