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The examples presented by Professor Feldman underscore the need to distinguish several of the notions of warranting examined in ‘Counterfactuals.’ It is tempting to apologize for the complexity of the above considerations. But this complexity reflects the truth of the matter, that our intuitions concerning warranting require a variety of warranting notions. The aim of ‘Counterfactuals’ was to make this complexity manageable by providing a unified method, the method of e-systems and contractions, for distinguishing and explaining the types of warranting.
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Pastin, M. Warranting reconsidered: Response to Feldman. Synthese 37, 459–464 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00873250
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