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What are the different logically possible answers to the question, "Do you Do you have any reasons to assert or deny p?" *  

                                    1. I have reasons to assert p. *

                                    2. I have reasons not to deny p. 

                                    3. * I have no reasons to deny p. 

                                    4. * I have no reasons to assert p. 

                                    5. * I have reasons not to assert p. 

                                    6. * I have reasons to deny p.

Relative to asserting By "stronger than" I mean "requires more or better reasons than.p, 2 is stronger that than 3, and 1 is stronger than 2. Similarly Similarly, relative to denying p, 5 is stronger than 4, and 6 is stronger than 5. It

By "stronger than" I mean "requires more or better reasons than." Thus Thus to assert p requires more or better reasons than not to deny p, which itself which itself requires more or better reasons than having no reasons to deny p. And, so so, too, with denying p, which requires more or better reasons than not to assertto assert p, which itself requires more and better reasons than having no reasons to reasons to assert p.

3 December 2000