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Clifford's Evidentialism

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Clifford's evidentialism: it is wrong—always, everywhere, for anyone—to believe anything on insufficient evidence. Belief is an ethical act.

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His shipowner suppresses doubts about a rotting vessel and sells the tickets. The ship sinks with all aboard; the believing, Clifford says, was the crime.