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(2015) Synthese 192 (8).

Hinge commitments vis-à-vis the transmission problem

Ladislav Koreň

pp. 2513-2534

This study provides a critical appraisal of Duncan Pritchard’s (Synthese 189:255–272, 2012) argument to the effect that ability to preserve certain eminently plausible transmission and/or closure principles for knowledge serves as a powerful adequacy test on alternative accounts of so-called Wittgensteinian certainties or hinge commitments. I argue that Pritchard fails to establish this claim—the transmission test does not favour his favourite conception over alternative conceptions premised on the idea that hinge commitments are not supportable via evidential-cognitive routes.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0664-x

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Koreň, L. (2015). Hinge commitments vis-à-vis the transmission problem. Synthese 192 (8), pp. 2513-2534.

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