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First, such a sufficiently warranted belief is not properly basic: Though it enjoys significant immediate warrant, its immediate warrant is not sufficient for knowledge.
In our example of partial mutual basing, then, both beliefs will become sufficiently warranted, because they were almost so just in virtue of their immediate warrant, and each received enough transferred warrant from the other to make up the difference without losing the warrant it transferred to the other.
Now, suppose that, among the beliefs one holds, is a certain system of closely related beliefs, each of which enjoys a significant amount immediate warrant, but not enough immediate warrant to be sufficiently warranted.
Given that he, as a good foundationalist, believes in immediate warrant, and given his views about how immediate warrant is generated, I think he pretty well has to admit that beliefs can enjoy immediate warrant just shy of the amount needed for knowledge. 3) "Admit" might even be the wrong word; I suspect he'd happily accept this much.
The ascription of immediate warrant to the beliefs in question, even where this immediate warrant does not render the beliefs sufficiently warranted, together with the possibility of mutual partial basing, cuts off the evidentialist objection: The beliefs in question don't have to be evidentially supported from the outside in the way the evidentialist objector demands.
To show this, consider a very simple system, consisting of just two beliefs, which we'll call belief A and belief B. Suppose A and B each have a good deal of immediate warrant for the subject in question, but the amount of immediate warrant each enjoys for her falls just short of what's needed for them to be sufficiently warranted.
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