 In spite of these considerations, a few authors (e.g., Davies 1998, and 2003a, 2004, and 2009, McLaughlin 2000 and Wright 2002, 2003, and 2007) have insisted that we should conceive of epistemic transmissivity in a way that proves very closely related or even identical to the capability of resolving doubt. Whereas some of these authors have eventually conceded that epistemic transmissivity cannot be defined as capability of resolving doubt (e.g., Wright 2011), others have attempted to articulate their views in full (see mostly Davies 2003a, 2004 and 2009). Suppose one wants to claim that an argument is transmissive when it is at the service of resolving a subject’s doubt about the conclusion. One possible way to go — which parallels Jackson’s (1987, §6)  analysis of when an argument begs the hearer’s question — is this. An argument could be considered to be non-transmissive when the fact that the subject doubts (or suppositionally  doubts)[9]  its conclusion, in her own thought, rationally requires the subject to adopt new background assumptions on which the premises are no longer justified by the relevant evidence (cf. Davies 2003a, 2004 and 2009. For a critical discussion of Davies’ project see Coliva 2010). As we will see below, it can be argued that Moore’s proof and the inference central to McKinsey paradox are non-transmissive in this sense.