ABSTRACT
To see how we can be justified in accepting such premisses, we must explore the notion of justifiable behavior. Exploring this notion is necessary here because accepting a premiss is, broadly speaking, an action or doing, and those who do what they are
entitled to do, or may do, are justified in doing it. Since doing what one may do is doing what is permissible, the justification appropriate to the acceptance of uncertain empirical premisses will ultimately concern the permissibility - specifically, the epistemic permissibility - of accepting them. Since doing A is permissible, generally speaking, just when doing A is not forbidden, the task of showing that one is epistemically justified in accepting uncertain premisses under such-and-such conditions is tantamount to showing that accepting them under those conditions is not epistemically forbidden.
