Suppose a ref makes a questionable shooting foul call. The player misses the free throw. According to a well-established principle, ʙᴀʟʟ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴇ, the player was not fouled. Thus, ʙᴀʟʟ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴇ licenses one to say: 'The player was fouled, but I don't believe it.' What, if anything, has gone wrong?
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Obviously, any good philosopher would look at what you're doing and abbreviate the principle BDL. And we all know it's not real philosophy until we tweak BDL repeatedly, leaving a final formulation called something like BDL''*.