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    Challenges→Anyone who believes a proposition that they do not take to be more likely than not is thereby acting immorally.

    Moral evaluation of belief requires assessing the agent's full epistemic situation, including whether evidence-gathering was reasonably available, not merely the probability assigned to the proposition.

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    Epistemic situation(epistemology)
    The facts about what someone knows or believes, and the circumstances around that knowledge—basically, everything relevant to whether a person actually knows something.
    Evidence-gathering(as used in epistemology)
    The process of searching for and collecting information or facts that could help you know something more reliably.
    Moral evaluation(as contrasted with epistemic evaluation)
    Judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, from an ethical standpoint.
    Probability assigned to the proposition(as used in epistemology and logic)
    A numerical estimate (like 50% or 90%) of how likely you think a statement is to be true.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)

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