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    It is not the case that Extremely demanding epistemic norms are sometimes inappropriate even if they can technically be satisfied

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    • 1.Epistemic norms derive their authority from truth-conduciveness, not from facts about human psychological comfort or social convenience.
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    • 2.Deeming a satisfiable norm 'inappropriate' because it is demanding conflates the normative question of what we ought to believe with the descriptive question of what we typically do believe.
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    • 3.Williamson's knowledge norm of assertion establishes that the threshold for epistemic propriety is fixed by the standard itself, not by the difficulty agents face in meeting it.
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    • 1.Virtue epistemology in the Aristotelian tradition holds that genuine intellectual virtue just is the stable disposition to meet the highest achievable epistemic standard, making demandingness a mark of excellence rather than inappropriateness.
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    • 2.Relaxing epistemic norms on grounds of demandingness risks entrenching epistemic injustice by permitting lower standards for groups already disadvantaged by poor epistemic socialization.
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    • 1.Some norms are too demanding to be practically appropriate
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    • 2.Appropriateness of a norm depends on more than mere satisfiability
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