Meta-Epistemology and the Varieties of Epistemic Infinitism

I will assume here the defenses of epistemic infinitism are adequate and inquire as to the variety standpoints within the view. I will argue that infinitism has three varieties depending on the strength of demandingness of the infinitist requirement and the purity of its conception of epistemic just...

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Belief
Coherentism
Dialectic
Dialectics
Education
Epistemic justification
Epistemology
Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge
Essays
Foundationalism
Headache
Inferential justification
Justified beliefs
Knowledge
Logic
Metaphysics
Phenomenological research
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
Theory
Trees
Truth
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