Higher‐Order Evidence and the Limits of Defeat

I see no significant difference between intuitions elicited by more familiar cases of defeat and those elicited by cases involving higher-order evidence.This is why I take the kinds of problems sketched below to cast doubt on a defeatist way of thinking more generally. 3The case closely resembles cases often used to motivate conciliatory views of disagreement.See, for instance, Christensen (2010a: 186-187).4 Cf.Christensen (2010b), Elga (unpublished) and Schechter (2011).