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The Law of Interspousal Immunity in Ohio
The purpose of this note will be to discuss Ohio\u27s current position on interspousal immunity as well as the problems that are created by the retention of that doctrine
The Law of Interspousal Immunity in Ohio
The purpose of this note will be to discuss Ohio\u27s current position on interspousal immunity as well as the problems that are created by the retention of that doctrine
The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth
This article combines findings from cognitive psychology on the role of processing fluency in truth judgments with epistemological theory on justification of belief. We first review evidence that repeated exposure to a statement increases the subjective ease with which that statement is processed. This increased processing fluency, in turn, increases the probability that the statement is judged to be true. The basic question discussed here is whether the use of processing fluency as a cue to truth is epistemically justified. In the present analysis, based on Bayes’ Theorem, we adopt the reliable-process account of justification presented by Goldman (1986) and show that fluency is a reliable cue to truth, under the assumption that the majority of statements one has been exposed to are true. In the final section, we broaden the scope of this analysis and discuss how processing fluency as a potentially universal cue to judged truth may contribute to cultural differences in commonsense beliefs
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