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    Challenges→There can be no merely formal answer to the question of what conditions on partial belief are necessary and sufficient for full belief.

    Leitgeb's Stability Theory shows that full belief can be formally defined as credence stable across a set of probabilistically possible worlds, requiring no appeal to evidence type.

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    Key Terms

    Evidence type(as used in epistemology)
    A category or kind of information or proof used to support a claim or belief.
    Leitgeb(named as the philosopher proposing a solution)
    Hannes Leitgeb is a contemporary philosopher who works on logic and the theory of belief; he's known for proposing solutions to famous logical puzzles in philosophy.
    Probabilistically possible worlds(the framework in which belief stability is measured)
    Hypothetical scenarios or situations that could reasonably occur given what we know about how likely different things are to happen.
    Stability Theory(Leitgeb's specific contribution to philosophy)
    A theory that explains what it means to truly believe something by looking at whether your confidence in that belief stays consistent across different possible scenarios.

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    credence(Bayesian epistemology)
    A subjective degree of belief, used in Bayesian epistemology to represent how strongly an agent believes a proposition.
    full belief(Buchak (2014) — epistemology of belief)
    A doxastic state that a partial belief may or may not qualify as, depending not only on the degree of the partial belief but also on the type of evidence underlying it.

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