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    Challenges→Deontological justification cannot suffice for an agent to have a justified belief.

    If deontological justification were sufficient for justified belief, then subjects who fulfill their deontic obligations would thereby have justified beliefs — but these cases show they do not.

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    Deontic obligations(in ethics and philosophy of duty)
    Duties or responsibilities that you are supposed to fulfill according to rules or moral principles. Think of it as what you *ought* to do.
    Deontological(as used in moral philosophy)
    An approach to ethics that focuses on whether actions follow rules and duties, rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
    Justification (in epistemology)

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    A property whose presence guarantees membership in or applicability of a category, such that having the property entails belonging to the species or class

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    According to the second objection to DJ, deontological justification cannot suffice for an agent to have a justified belief. This claim is typically supported by describing cases involving either a benighted, culturally isolated society or subjects who are cognitively deficient. Such cases involve subjects whose cognitive limitations make it the case that they are under no obligation to refrain from believing as they do, but whose limitations nonetheless render them incapable of forming justifie

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