Monday, March 26, 2007
Mark Lance and Margaret Little, "Defeasibility and the Normative Grasp of Context"
Defeasible generalizations like "normally, the appearance that p justifies that p" should not be understood as merely statistical generalizations, or as enthymemes (with a supressed exceptionless premise). They are genuinely explanatory, even though exception-laden.
Labels:
contextualism,
epistemology,
explanation,
Lance,
laws,
Little,
rules
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