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    The Zebra* variant instantiates the disjunctive template — Carmelics
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    The Zebra* variant instantiates the disjunctive template

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    • 1.P3 entails Q3
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    • 2.S's justification for believing P3 is constituted by s's seeing that P3, which is subjectively indistinguishable from the state s would be in if R were true (where R is that the animals in the pen are mules cleverly disguised to look like zebras)
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    • 3.R is incompatible with P3
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    • 1.The disjunctive template requires that the subject's justification be wholly constituted by a factive perceptual state, but S's justification for P3 can be partially grounded in background knowledge about zoo practices.
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    • 2.If S's justification for P3 is not solely constituted by the subjectively indistinguishable perceptual state, then P4's counterfactual dependency fails, and the disjunctive structure collapses into a standard closure failure.
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    • 1.McDowell's disjunctivist tradition holds that veridical perception and hallucination are not merely subjectively indistinguishable but are fundamentally different epistemic kinds, making the 'subjectively indistinguishable' condition in P2 epistemically irrelevant to justification.
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    • 2.If the Zebra* case relies on subjective indistinguishability as the operative condition for justification failure, it presupposes an internalist conception of justification that disjunctivism explicitly rejects, undermining the claim that it instantiates the disjunctive template.
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    The justification from E3 for P3 arguably fails to transmit across the inference from P3 to Q3 because of the satisfaction of the information-dependence template. For it seems true that s could acquire a justification for believing P3 on the basis of E3 only if s had an independent justification for believing Q3. But suppose that s’s justification for believing P3 is based not on E3 but on s’s seeing that P3. Let’s call Zebra* the corresponding variant of Zebra. Given the non-inferential nature
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