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puzzle that one can see a hen with many speckles without being justified in believing it has any exact number, challenging foundationalist accounts of perception.

In epistemology, problem of the speckled hen refers to puzzle that one can see a hen with many speckles without being justified in believing it has any exact number, challenging foundationalist accounts of perception. This meaning comes from Chisholm (1942) in Mind.[1]

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  1. Chisholm, R. (1942). Iv.: discussions: the Problem of the Speckled Hen. Mind, LI(204), 368-373. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/li.204.368

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