Suspension-to-suspension justification principles

Suspension-to-suspension justification principles

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We will be in a better position to dress evaluate some important skeptical theses if we first investigate two questions about justified suspended judgment.One question is this: when, if ever, does one justified suspension confer justification on another suspension? and the other is this: what is the structure of justified suspension? the goal of this essay is to make headway at answering these questions.After surveying the four main views about the non-normative nature of suspended judgment and offering a taxonomy of the epistemic principles that might govern DEODORANT CEDARWOOD CYPRESS which suspended judgments are justified, I will isolate five important principles that might govern which suspended judgments are justified.I will call these suspension-to-suspension principles.

I will then evaluate these principles by the lights of each of the four views about what suspensions are.I close by drawing some conclusions about the prospects for skepticism, the structure of justified suspended judgment, and the importance of theorizing about justified suspended judgment.