Questions tagged [justification]
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What is the difference between warrant and justification according to Plantinga?
According to the traditional account of knowledge: S knows P iff S has a (1) Justified (2) True (3) Belief. I have not faced any account of knowledge that denies that last two things (epistemic ...
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Self-evident vs. self-explanatory vs. …?
How far apart are these descriptions? I was approaching the issue from the perspective of erotetic logic, and my intuition is that self-evidence is when a proposition is evident from its erotetic ...
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What's the difference between Justification and Evidence?
Q: In what ways does use of the term "Evidence" differ from that of the term "Justification" in philosophy?
Ive read Evidence posed as the internalist counterpoint to the ...
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Is Philosopical Skepticism self-defeating?
Whilst researching philosophical skepticism, I found this answer to the question here which states the following:
[Jon Erison] Extreme skepticism is in fact self-defeating. According the the ...
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A priori vs false witness statement
John tells Linda the following false statement to trick her into believing that UFO:s exist.
Yesterday when I was walking in the forest I saw a UFO for 5 seconds and then it disappeared, you have to ...
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Can coherentism be understood purely without deductive logic?
To me, deductive logic is essential not just for distinguishing between foundational and coherent knowledge, but to any sort of reasoning. For instance if you want to really figure out (reason) ...
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“Dinosaurs did exist once”. Is it knowledge or is it only justified belief?
On Wikipedia, knowledge is defined as justified true
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The concept of justified true belief states that in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not only believe the ...
