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Generalised epistemic conservatism says that for any e, p and q, if any doubt about q would defeat the prima facie justification from e for p, then e can supply justification for p only conditional on independent justification for q.
In this case e can supply justification for believing p only conditional on independent justification for believing q, so that the information-dependence template is satisfied.
Suppose the justification from e for the premise(s) p of a known deductively valid argument concluding in q is conditional on independent justification for q.
These are cases in which e does supply s with justification for p conditional on q because q is in background information, but e supplies s with no first-time or quantitatively strengthening justification for q.
However, the present proposal is silent on justification.
In Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Application (1982) Alan Gewirth offered an agency-based justification for human rights.
Farm subsidies everywhere are conditional on the land being in "agricultural condition".
Note that since q is in background information, in these cases e supplies s with no first-time or quantitatively strengthening justification for q given background information q. Namely, e does not confirm q conditional on q (cf. Moretti 2012).
But it cannot be conditional on fantasy.
Made the outlook conditional on inflation.
"Affection can be conditional on success.
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