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    Some beliefs must have justification without depending on other beliefs (foundationalism is true)

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    • 1.One cannot acquire justification for a belief by inferring it from an unjustified belief
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    • 2.One cannot acquire justification for a belief by way of circular inferential justification
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    • 3.If all justification is inferential, then for any justified belief P, there must be a prior justified belief E1 from which P is inferred
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    • 1.Justification can be constituted by coherence relations among beliefs in a web, without any belief serving as a terminal anchor.
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    • 2.The regress problem presupposes a linear, hierarchical model of justification that coherentism's holistic structure does not share.
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    • 3.A belief system gains justification through mutual support and explanatory integration, not through derivation from privileged foundations.
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    • 1.Infinitism, as defended by Peter Klein, holds that an infinite non-repeating chain of reasons is the correct response to the regress, not a vicious one.
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    • 2.Finite beings need not complete an infinite chain to be justified; having the disposition to provide further reasons at each stage is sufficient for justification.
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    • 3.The argument from finite cognitive capacity conflates completing an inference chain with being embedded in a potentially infinite structure of available reasons.
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    With the first clause of PIJ, one can present a relatively straightforward epistemic regress argument for foundationalism. That clause basically says that one cannot acquire justification for a belief by inferring it from an unjustified belief. It also seems that one cannot acquire justification for a belief by way of a circular, inferential justification—one cannot rely even in part on a proposition as a premise in an inference in support of that very proposition. We seem left with two options:
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