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### Agnosticism Argument

| <font color="CC6600">**Variable**</font> | <font color="CC6600">**Definition**</font>                                                                |
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|    <font color="CC6600">**U**</font>     | one (x) can unpack what evidence would lead them to change their doxastic attitude on a proposition (y) |
|    <font color="CC6600">**K**</font>     | one (x) knows why they believe that a proposition (y) is true                                           |
|    <font color="CC6600">**W**</font>     | one (x) should temporarily withhold the belief that a proposition (y) is true                           |
|    <font color="CC6600">**o**</font>     | the interlocutor                                                                                                     |
|    <font color="CC6600">**r**</font>     | the proposition at hand                                                                                           | 

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<b>P1)</b></font> If one cannot unpack what evidence would lead them to change their doxastic attitude on a proposition, then one does does not know why they believe that a proposition is true.
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<b>(∀x∀y(¬Uxy→¬Kxy))</b>
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<b>P2)</b></font> If one does not know why they believe that a proposition is true, then one should temporarily withhold the belief that a proposition is true.
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<b>(∀x∀y(¬Kxy→Wxy))</b>
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<b>P3)</b></font> The interlocutor  cannot unpack what evidence would lead them to change their doxastic attitude on the proposition at hand.
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<b>(¬Uor)</b>
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<b>C)</b></font> Therefore, the interlocutor should temporarily withhold the belief that the proposition at hand is true.
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<b>(∴Wor)</b>
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[Proof Tree](https://www.umsu.de/trees/#(~6x~6y(~3Uxy~5~3Kxy)),(~6x~6y(~3Kxy~5Wxy)),(~3Uor)|=(Wor))

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