Single Idea 19717

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility]

Full Idea

Can the original justification of a belief be regained through a successful defeat of a defeater?

Gist of Idea

Can a defeater itself be defeated?

Source

Thomas Grundmann (Defeasibility Theory [2011], 'Defeater-Defs')

Book Reference

'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.162


A Reaction

[Jäger 2005 addresses this] I would have thought the answer is yes. I aspire to coherent justifications, so I don't see justifications as a chain of defeat and counter-defeat, but as collective groups of support and challenge.