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Isaac Levi opens his Gambling with Truth (1967) with a distinction between global and local justification of beliefs. A ‘globalist’ wishes to justify the totality of beliefs held at a given time. Local justification is less demanding : it arises in the context of specific inquiries, and it appeals to corrigible statements which may later lose their evidential status.
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Niiniluoto, I. (1976). Inquiries, Problems, and Questions: Remarks on Local Induction. In: Bogdan, R.J. (eds) Local Induction. Synthese Library, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9799-1_11
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