Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Faith and Philosophy
Abstract
Graham and Maitzen think my CORNEA principle is in trouble because it entails "intolerable violations of closure under known entailment." I argue that the trouble arises from current befuddlement about closure itself, and that a distinction drawn by Rudolph Carnap, suitably extended, shows how closure, when properly understood, works in tandem with CORNEA. CORNEA does not obey Closure because it shouldn't: it applies to "dynamic" epistemic operators, whereas closure principles hold only for "static" ones. What the authors see as an intolerable vice of CORNEA is actually a virtue, helping us see what closure principles should-and shouldn't-themselves be about.
First Page
87
Last Page
98
DOI
10.5840/faithphil200724139
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Recommended Citation
Wykstra, Stephen J., "Cornea, carnap, and current closure befuddlement" (2007). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 559.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/559