Philosophical analysis demonstrates that the Reasoning View withstands objections regarding suspension of judgment, indicating that perceived over-generation reflects the context-relativity of...
On the Reasoning View, normative reasons are the premises of good patterns of reasoning. Applied to suspension of judgment, the view faces an objection due to Eva Schmidt: When two equally reliable sources conflict, the good reasoning that ends in suspension takes the evidence for p among its premises, so the view appears to count that evidence as a reason to suspend on p, which seems absurd. I argue that the Reasoning View survives this objection. Given a knowledge-based standard for the fittingness of suspension and the defeasibility internal to the view, one consideration can favor belief in one situation and suspension in another, so the over-generation Schmidt describes is just the context-relativity of favoring.
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