Abstract:
One popular answer is that these deductions are instances of transmission failure (for example, Wright 1985, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008; Davies 1998, 2000, 2003; McLaughlin 2000; and Dretske 2005).1 Roughly, to say that NMD and ZD are instances of transmission failure is to say that they cannot transmit justification from their premises to their conclusions....