Understanding, justification and the agglomeration of risks of error
A common motivation for denying the closure of justification under conjunction introduction is that it leads to paradox. In this paper, we argue that any adequate account of understanding involves rejecting the idea that agglomeration of justification across conjunctions is limited in the way critics of closure think it is, and we explore some of the epistemological implications of this insight.
Authors
- Miloud Belkoniene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-1629)
- Christoph Kelp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7735-2109)
Institutions
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Philosophical Studies
- Published
- 2026-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02501-5
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung