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We discuss two objections that foundationalists have raised against infinite chains of probabilistic justification. We demonstrate that neither of the objections can be maintained.
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Peijnenburg, J., Atkinson, D. Probabilistic Justification and the Regress Problem. Stud Logica 89, 333–341 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-008-9132-7
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