The Many Ways of the Basing Relation

The chapter is structured as follows: in Section 2 we detail the key principle of the orthodox view about the relation between propositional justification and well-grounded belief, and describe cases that are not accounted by it. In Section 3 we introduce the concept of enthymematic inference and correlated notions. By relying on this notional background, in Section 4 we expand the key principle of the orthodox view about propositional justification and well-grounded belief into a more comprehensive principle and show that it accounts for the recalcitrant cases. In Section 5 we draw our conclusions.