Normative Accounts of Fundamentality

Naturalness is Not an Aim of Belief

“…The thesis NRN is closely related to the thesis put forward by McDaniel (2017). It is important here that we restrict ourselves to "prima facie obligations" since there are going to be cases in which an agent has much more evidence supporting some proposition p than they have supporting another proposition q, despite p's being less natural than q.…”

“…On that reading CT simply states that one accurately believes 2 Both Sider (2011) and Dasgupta (2018) use all three concepts, not clearly distinguishing between the various different formulations. McDaniel (2017) more explicitly chooses to formulate the thesis in terms of obligation, but notes that he is not wedded to that notion, and that other concepts may work equally well in formulating the theory.…”

“…1 See for instance Sider (2011) andMcDaniel (2017). Dasgupta (2018) further argues that while this thesis is not often explicitly endorsed, it is an implicit commitment of many of those who theorize about naturalness.…”

“…This appeal is explicit inMcDaniel (2017) and seems to me implied inDasgupta (2018) Sider (2011). appeals instead to the concepts needed to "simply express" the proposition in question.…”