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    Moore's proof is non-transmissive because Q8 (the proposition that an external world exists) is part of the collateral information a subject needs independent justification for in order to receive justification for perceptual hypotheses from perceptual evidence.

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    • 1.Q8 is a cornerstone for the area of discourse about perceivable things.
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    • 2.A cornerstone c for an area of discourse d is such that no proposition p in d could be justified for a subject s if s had no independent justification for c.
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    • 3.Moore's proof treats Q8 conservatively with respect to any perceptual hypothesis p: if a subject had no independent justification for Q8, no apparent perceptual experience could supply prima facie justification for any perceptual hypothesis p.
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    • 1.Perceptual justification is foundational and does not require prior independent justification for background enabling conditions like Q8.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' shows that hinges like Q8 function as rules of evidence rather than propositions requiring prior justification, so they cannot constitute collateral information in Wright's sense.
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    • 3.If Q8 were genuinely required collateral information, no perceptual belief could ever be justified, generating a regress Wright's own framework is not equipped to block.
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    • 1.Pryor's dogmatist account holds that having a perceptual experience with content p gives immediate, non-inferential prima facie justification for p independent of any antecedent justification for the external world.
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    • 2.If Pryor's dogmatism is coherent, then Q8 is not collateral information but rather a consequence derivable from perceptual justification, making Moore's proof transmissive after all.
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    • 3.Wright conflates the epistemic priority of Q8 in skeptical dialectic with a constitutive role in the structure of perceptual justification, which are distinct claims requiring separate argument.
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    Collateral information(as used in epistemology)
    Background knowledge or assumptions you need to already accept in order to use other evidence to justify a belief.
    Moore's proof(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    A famous argument by philosopher G.E. Moore where he held up his hand and said 'Here is a hand' as proof that the external world (physical objects outside our minds) actually exists.
    Perceptual evidence(as used in epistemology)
    Information you gather directly through your senses—what you see, hear, feel, taste, or smell.
    Perceptual hypotheses(as used in epistemology)
    Educated guesses or proposed explanations about what you're experiencing through your senses (what you see, hear, touch, etc.).
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    non-transmissive(Applied to Zebra* and the disjunctive template)
    A structure or template is non-transmissive of first-time justification when conditions for acquiring first-time justification for a conclusion cannot all be satisfied when that structure is instantiated.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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    According to Wright there exist cornerstone propositions—or simply cornerstones—for different areas of discourse. In accordance with Wright’s characterization of it, c is a cornerstone for an area of discourse d just in case for any proposition p belonging to d, p could not be justified for any subject s if s had no independent justification for accepting c (see mostly Wright 2004).[10] Cornerstones for the area of discourse about perceivable things are for instance the logical negations of sk
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