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The Legal Roots of Presumption: What Presumption is All About. Presumptions as Procedural resources. Presumption beyond the Law
Presumption and Burden of Proof: Introduction. Burden of Proof and of Reply. The Weight of a Burden. Cognitive Rationality and Burden of Proof. Presumption and Skepticism
Cognitive Presumption and Truth: Cognitive Fundamentals. Some Aspects of Cognitive Presumption. Principles of Presumption. Defeasibility and the Role of Presumption. Presumptive Truth. Presumption and Plausibility. Presumption and Probability
Validating Cognitive Presumptions: The Purposiveness of Presumption. Justifying Presumptions. The Question of Validity. How to Assess Success. The Import of Experience: Avoiding Circularity Cultural Evolution as a Teleological Process: Rational Selection
Presumption and Inquiry: Presumptions in Rational inquiry. Presumption and the Diallelus. Presumption and the Contrast between Foundationalism and Coherentism. Coherentism and the Evidential Grounding of Claims to Truth
Default Reasoning: Default Inference. Facing the Prospect of Error. Induction as Default Reasoning. Default Reasoning as Nonmonotonic. Some Comforting Considerations
Presumption and Trust: The Advantages of Cooperation. Building up Trust: An Economic Approach. The Rationale of Epistemic Trust. Trustful Interaction as a General Benefit. The Presumptive Credibility of Common Sense. The Matter of Risk. The Presumptive Credibility of Experts
Presumption and Communication: Communicative Presumption. Truth Conditions and Use Conditions. Communication and the Presumption of Normalcy. Truthful Communication as a General Benefit Enterprise. Rational Economy as the Crux
Presumption in Science and Beyond: Presumptions in Science. Induction and Cognitive Economy: The Economic Rationale of Simplicity Preference. Trans-Scientific Presumption. Presumption and the Judgment of Elites
Specificity Prioritization and the Primacy of the Particular: Specificity Prioritization. The Rationale of Specificity Prioritization. A Curious Inversion: The Case of Counterfactuals. Natural versus Unnatural Counterfactuals. The Key Lesson. Conclusion
Dismissing Extremely Remote Possibilities: Introduction. Effectively Zero Probabilities. How Small is Small Enough?. Why Accept a Threshold of "Effective Zerohood"?. The Question of Validation. Overcoming a Problem
Conclusion.