ABSTRACT

(1) Many theorists envision an infinite “regress of reasons,” and some skeptics among them see it as an insuperable impediment to rationally warranted claims to knowledge. (2) However, the attempts to implement this idea are not free from difficulty. (3) In particular, there is an important distinction between there being reasons and someone’s having (or indeed even needing) discursive and propositionally formulatable reasons for a belief.