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doxastic voluntarism: a standalone construct

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the thesis that people can choose what to believe at will, which the source rejects along with duty-based accounts of justified belief.

In epistemology, doxastic voluntarism refers to the thesis that people can choose what to believe at will, which the source rejects along with duty-based accounts of justified belief. This meaning comes from Alston (1988) in Philosophical Perspectives.[1]

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  1. Alston, W. P. (1988). The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification. Philosophical Perspectives, 2, 257. https://doi.org/10.2307/2214077

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