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  1. Are There Counterexamples to the Consistency Principle?Clayton Littlejohn - 2023 - Episteme 20 (4):852-869.
    Must rational thinkers have consistent sets of beliefs? I shall argue that it can be rational for a thinker to believe a set of propositions known to be inconsistent. If this is right, an important test for a theory of rational belief is that it allows for the right kinds of inconsistency. One problem we face in trying to resolve disagreements about putative rational requirements is that parties to the disagreement might be working with different conceptions of the relevant attitudes. (...)
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  • Believe It or Not, Disbelief Remains Mysterious.Changsheng Lai - 2025 - Ratio 38 (2):102-109.
    As a basic doxastic attitude ranking with belief and withholding, disbelief remains a comparatively underexplored concept. According to the standard account of disbelief, to disbelieve that p is to believe that not‐p. A recently proposed rejection account of disbelief argues that disbelief is a sui generis doxastic attitude, viz., an attitude of rejection. This paper argues against both the standard account and the rejection account. I first illustrate that the standard account would entail implausible corollaries. Subsequently, an argument is given (...)
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