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Dr Livingstone, I Presume?

Pascal Engel

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Presumption is often discussed in law, less often in epistemology. Is it an attitude? If so where can we locate it within the taxonomy of epistemic attitudes? Is it a kind of belief, a judgment, an assumption or a supposition? Or is it a species of inference? There are two basic models of presumption: judgmental, as a kind of judgment, and legal, taken from the use of presumptions in law. The legal model suggests that presumption is a practical inference, whereas the judgmental model suggests that presumption is an epistemic attitude. I argue that presumption is neither a practical inference nor a merely epistemic attitude: it involves both, within the category of what we may call the inquiring attitudes.
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Pascal Engel. Dr Livingstone, I Presume?. Episteme, 2021, Episteme Conference, 18 (3), pp.477-491. ⟨10.1017/epi.2021.35⟩. ⟨hal-03643984⟩
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