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ON A NO DEFEAT EVIDENCE PRINCIPLE OF TAL AND COMESAÑA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2018

Abstract

We offer a critical evaluation of a recent proposal of E. Tal and J. Comesaña on the topic of when evidence of evidence constitutes evidence. After establishing that attempts of L. Moretti and W. Roche to discredit the proposal miss their mark, we fashion another, which does not.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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