Sunday, October 13, 2013

Evidence doesn’t usually logically entail that for which it is evidence


"But evidence doesn’t usually logically entail that for which it is evidence. Normally, a given piece of evidence merely provides grounds, perhaps very good grounds, for supposing the belief in question is true. Notice that you might possess excellent evidence for believing something, yet still be mistaken. A piece of evidence does not normally provide us with a logical guarantee that our belief is true."

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