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    Challenges→Deontological justification cannot suffice for an agent to have a justified belief.

    There exist cases involving cognitively deficient or culturally isolated subjects whose cognitive limitations mean they are under no obligation to refrain from believing as they do.

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    Cognitively deficient(describes the mental state of the subjects being discussed)
    Having significant limitations in mental abilities like reasoning, understanding, or processing information.
    Culturally isolated(describes subjects who lack normal cultural exposure and education)
    Cut off from exposure to the beliefs, knowledge, and ways of thinking that are common in society or in one's culture.
    Epistemic obligation

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    (the philosophical framework being discussed—whether people have duties regarding their beliefs)
    A duty about *what* you should believe or *how* you should form your beliefs (epistemic relates to knowledge and belief).
    cognitive limitations(as referring to human mental constraints)
    Boundaries on what our brains can do or understand—like how we can't process infinitely complex information or make perfect distinctions between very similar things.
    obligation(Within obligational disputation)
    The respondent's commitment to a specific stance on the case put forward by the opponent, which governs how the respondent must respond to subsequent propositions throughout the disputation.

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    According to the second objection to DJ, deontological justification cannot suffice for an agent to have a justified belief. This claim is typically supported by describing cases involving either a benighted, culturally isolated society or subjects who are cognitively deficient. Such cases involve subjects whose cognitive limitations make it the case that they are under no obligation to refrain from believing as they do, but whose limitations nonetheless render them incapable of forming justifie

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