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    If probability relations are understood as real logical relations holding between propositions, the acquaintance theorist can secure knowledge of probabilistic connections through direct acquaintance.

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    • 1.Real logical relations of making-probable between propositions, if they exist, are the kind of thing that can be directly grasped.
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    • 2.Direct acquaintance with such relations would provide the required knowledge without generating a new regress.
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    • 1.Keynes's logical probability relations, which Ramsey directly attacked, lack determinate values in most real inference cases, undermining their cognitive grip.
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    • 2.Ramsey demonstrated in 'Truth and Probability' (1926) that probability is better understood as a feature of degrees of belief, not mind-independent logical relations between propositions.
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    • 3.If probability relations are subjective or conventional rather than real logical facts, acquaintance with them yields no objective epistemic foundation but merely privileged access to one's own credences.
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    • 1.The regress-stopping role assigned to acquaintance requires that the grasped relation itself be epistemically self-justifying, but Fumerton's own internalism demands that justification of acquaintance claims be accessible to the subject.
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    • 2.Recognizing a logical probability relation as genuinely truth-conducive rather than merely apparent requires a further epistemic act, reintroducing the regress acquaintance was invoked to terminate.
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    Acquaintance theorist / Acquaintance theory(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A philosopher who believes we can know things directly through personal experience or familiarity, rather than only through descriptions or reasoning about them.
    Probability relations(in epistemology and logic)
    The connections between evidence and how likely something is to be true based on that evidence.
    direct acquaintance(Acquaintance theory)
    A non-inferential epistemic relation to a fact or state of affairs that grounds foundational justification for a corresponding belief.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    logical relations(Davidson's distinction between causal and logical relations)
    Relations that obtain between particular descriptions of events, not between the events themselves
    propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories

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    Most classical foundationalists at least implicitly rejected the idea that the mere obtaining of a probability relation between one’s noninferential evidence that P and the proposition Q one infers from that evidence is sufficient to acquire inferential justification or inferential knowledge. Rather, they insisted, one must be aware of or have access to the probabilistic connection that obtains between one’s premises and one’s conclusion. Direct acquaintance with facts was proposed to end a pote
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    Real logical relations of making-probable between propositions, if they exist, a...Recognizing a logical probability relation as genuinely truth-conducive rather t...The regress-stopping role assigned to acquaintance requires that the grasped rel...

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