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    Richard Feldman's work on defeaters shows undercutting de... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Self-doubting higher-order evidence requires the subject to bracket her first-order evidence in a way that other defeating evidence does not.

    Richard Feldman's work on defeaters shows undercutting defeaters already require suspending judgment on the reliability of one's evidence-gathering process.

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    • 1.Undercutting defeaters challenge the source's reliability, requiring epistemic agents to question their evidence-gathering methods before accepting conclusions.
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    • 2.Suspending judgment on reliability is rational when defeaters emerge, preventing hasty belief formation based on potentially compromised sources.
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    • 3.Feldman's analysis treats undercutting defeaters as distinct from rebutting ones, showing they necessarily target the epistemic process itself, not just conclusions.
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    • 1.One can rationally respond to undercutting defeaters by adjusting confidence rather than suspending judgment entirely on reliability assessments.
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    • 2.Defeaters may operate on evidence quality without requiring suspension of judgment about the evidence-gathering process's general reliability.
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    • 3.If undercutting defeaters require suspending all reliability judgments, agents face paralysis since no inquiry could ever restart without begging the question.
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