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  1. Γ can be empty. If you don’t like my examples, feel free to choose your own, everything I have to say should apply to those as well.

  2. If this were the real story about the justification of laws of logic, we would be in a similar position to the one Hume thinks we are in with regard to the justification of induction; the methods we used for coming to believe laws of logic would not be ones that would provide a real justification for such beliefs, and so skepticism threatens [9]

  3. Perhaps it is [13].

  4. With a special kind of exception made for logics of context-sensitivity [10, 20].

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Russell, G. The Justification of the Basic Laws of Logic. J Philos Logic 44, 793–803 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-015-9360-z

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