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    It is not the case that The reply that one is justified in believing a proposition and justified in believing one's evidence supports that proposition may be acceptable in limited cases

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    • 1.Higher-order evidence about one's own reliability systematically defeats first-order justification, as Christensen's 'Disagreement' (2010) demonstrates.
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    • 2.A rational agent who learns their evidence-assessment faculties are compromised cannot coherently exempt any particular case from that uncertainty.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The 'limited cases' qualifier smuggles in an epistemic privilege the agent cannot verify without begging the question at issue.
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    • 2.Kelly's reflection on peer disagreement shows that treating one's own assessment as correct presupposes the reliability that higher-order doubt places in question.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Skeptical philosophical arguments are too recherché to command revisions in everyday beliefs
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    • 2.In cases where one's initial assessment of what the first-order evidence supports is actually correct, maintaining that assessment is epistemically fitting
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