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    Supports→A more restricted notion of entailment (entailment*) should govern infallible justification, requiring that the truthmaker of the entailing proposition be at least a constituent of the truthmaker of the entailed proposition.

    P entails* Q only if the fact that would make P true is at least a constituent of the fact that would make Q true.

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    We still need to qualify the entailment in some way to circumvent the problem discussed earlier. Whenever I have any justification at all for believing a proposition that turns out to be necessarily true, that justification will entail the necessary truth. But we do not want just any sort of justification to yield infallibly justified belief, even if the object of that belief is a necessary truth. This problem is notoriously difficult to solve (see the entry on Certainty for more), but intuiti

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