Fumerton’s Puzzle

Journal of Philosophical Research 15:109-113 (1990)
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Abstract

There is a puzzle that is faced by every philosophical account of rational belief, rational strategy, rational planning or whatever. I describe this puzzle, examine Richard Fumerton’s proposed solution to it and then go on to sketch my own preferred solution.

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Richard Foley
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