ABSTRACT
This chapter raises a key problem for hinge epistemology that has received little attention until now - the problem of demarcation. While there are easy ways of making the problem intuitively appealing, the epistemological problem at its roots is harder to discern. This chapter examines three possible interpretations of what might be the issue: The possible bizarreness of our entitlements, the relativism that entitlement engenders, or the arbitrariness that may arise from entitlement of cognitive activity. It argues that the two former issues cannot satisfactorily explain what the problem of demarcation is, while arbitrariness can explain how bizarreness and relativism are parts of the problem of demarcation. Finally, one possible solution to the problem due to Jochen Briesen is examined and found lacking.
