 In response, one might attempt to explain away the intuition of equal justification as instead concerning equal blamelessness or excusability, or at any rate as being correct only if restricted to blamelessness or excusability (e.g. Williamson 2007 or forthcoming). Critics often try to respond by distinguishing the sort of blamelessness or excusability one finds in cases of cognitive delusion or brainwashing, from the epistemic status of the beliefs of the victim of an evil demon (Pryor 2001), or by demanding a more thorough explanation of why the victim is indeed blameless or excusable (Miracchi forthcoming). Recent literature also steps back to examine whether a substantive distinction can be drawn between justification and excusability, surveying potential distinctive explanatory roles for epistemic excuses to play (Greco 2019).