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    It is not the case that There can be no merely formal answer to the question of what conditions on partial belief are necessary and sufficient for full belief.

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    • 1.A credence threshold of 1 (or sufficiently near 1) constitutes a purely formal, degree-based criterion that is both necessary and sufficient for full belief.
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    • 2.Leitgeb's Stability Theory shows that full belief can be formally defined as credence stable across a set of probabilistically possible worlds, requiring no appeal to evidence type.
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    • 1.Formal Lockean thresholds, as defended by Foley, successfully reduce full belief to partial belief exceeding a context-sensitive but formally specifiable degree.
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    • 2.The evidential basis of a partial belief is already encoded in its probabilistic relations to other credences, making a separate evidence-type condition formally redundant.
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    • 1.What partial beliefs count as full beliefs cannot merely be a matter of the degree of partial belief.
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    • 2.What partial beliefs count as full beliefs must also depend on the type of evidence the partial belief is based on.
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