 Here, we will examine Joseph Tolliver’s account of the basing relation. Roughly, Tolliver’s view is that a belief is based on a reason for a person S if and only if S believes that the reason provides evidence for the belief, and also believes that it is likely that the probability that the belief is true increased at the time the reason was accepted. Tolliver’s aim is to avoid the pendulum objection to Swain’s theory while affirming Swain and Lehrer’s intuition in the case of the superstitious lawyer that the lawyer’s belief that his client is innocent is based on the complicated line of reasoning. Tolliver’s account is as follows (Tolliver 1982, p.  159):[8]