 One common line of objection to doxastic theories of the basing relation has to do with individuals who do not possess the epistemic concepts needed to form the meta-belief (that a reason is a good reason to hold a belief) required by doxastic theories, but who nonetheless seem to base beliefs on reasons. For example, young or uneducated persons may seem perfectly capable having reasons for beliefs even if they lack the appropriate concepts of epistemic evidence required by condition (2) of Tolliver’s theory. One possible line of reply to this sort of objection would be to stipulate that one may have either an appropriate meta-belief or some appropriate form of awareness that need not involve any particular fully developed epistemic concept. For example, one might allow, as does Moser’s theory discussed in the foregoing, that one merely have a de re awareness of the evidential relation holding between the reason and the belief.