 One such norm is that we take what we believe to be true, and therefore tend to see the falsity of a statement to be a decisive reason against believing it.Talisse argues that the truth norm of belief can be shown to imply additional norms of belief, and that once these norms are identified they can be seen to provide compelling reasons for epistemic agents to uphold the social and political norms of democracy.Talisse's surprising conclusion is that our most basic reasons to be democrats, it seems, are epistemological and not moral.