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The chain of reasons

On the axis: Justification of belief · the chain of reasons

Every belief rests on a reason, which rests on another: either the chain stops at beliefs that justify themselves, or it closes into a circle where each supports the others, or it runs off to infinity. These three exits are exactly the three ways of answering "what justifies a belief?".

Anchors: Sextus Empiricus · Aristotle