The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement

Looking back on it, it seems almost incredible that so many equally educated, equally sincere compatriots and contemporaries, all drawing from the same limited stock of evidence, should have reached so many totally different conclusions—and always with complete certainty.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Contemporary Epistemology

• Publication date

  2019-03-15

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1002/9781119420828.CH17
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