ABSTRACT

Is FP#7 a ‘looping principle’, to use another of Lehrer’s phrases? That FP#7 is true is itself a deliverance of our faculties, and if the latter are not fallacious, as FP#7 says they are not, then FP#7 itself is trustworthy as well. In this way, in vouching for the deliverances of our faculties generally, FP#7 ‘vouches for itself’ (Lehrer 1990, 42-43).