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    In order to be justified in believing hypothesis h on the... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The Metaevidential Principle is true

    In order to be justified in believing hypothesis h on the basis of evidence e, one must be justified in believing that e makes h probable

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    (ii) includes an endorsement of the Metaevidential Principle. We have looked at representative realism as one motivation for that principle, but there are others. Classical foundationalists have traditionally endorsed it because it follows from two other claims they find plausible. The first is (i) above, that our perceptual beliefs are based on appearance beliefs. The second is the claim that in order to be justified in believing hypothesis h on the basis of evidence e, one must be justified in

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