If the making-probable relation is a brute given of acquaintance, then the view is structurally identical to Pryor's dogmatism, which Fumerton's acquaintance theory was explicitly designed to surpass.
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Having exactly the same arrangement, properties, and characteristics; being impossible to tell apart by any description or measurement.
acquaintance(Russell's epistemology of singular reference)
Russell's form of demonstrative identification, in which a subject is directly presented with an object (typically sense data) rather than an extra-mental individual
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