Hinge commitments vis-a-vis the transmission problem (original) (raw)

This study provides a critical appraisal of Duncan Pritchard’s (2012) argument to the effect that ability to preserve certain eminently plausible transmission and/or closure principles for knowledge serves as a powerful adequacy test on alternative accounts of so-called Wittgensteinian certainties or hinge commitments. I argue that Pritchard fails to establish this claim and that the transmission test does not favor his favorite conception over alternative conceptions premised on the idea that hinge commitments are not supportable via evidential-cognitive routes.