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Can I know something but not be able to justify it to anyone else?
Yes. And this is true of most of what we know.
Almost everything we know, we learn thru first person empiricism. It may be possible to translate and detail at least some first person empirical ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
Intersubjective agreement isn't required at all, strictly speaking. But it does help.
For one particular topic, if we grant that some reasonable portion of humans are rational, it suggests that those ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
Reliabilist and skeptical claims notwithstanding...(as pointed out by Conifold)
this is the crux of the atheistic Argument from Divine Hiddenness:
(1) Necessarily, if God exists, then God perfectly ...
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What would constitute as justification?
The word justification has an extended family of epistemological uses. In no particular order of generality (and not exhaustively), see:
Artemov and Fitting, "Justification Logic."
Hasan ...
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Can I know something but not be able to justify it to anyone else?
The skeptic view (in the sense of questioning beliefs, not radical philosophical skepticism) is, roughly speaking, that if you cannot justify something, you shouldn't believe it.
The above means being ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
I just watched a Star Trek episode in which someone says "I know this, trust me". The captain immediately swings into action, because he knows the person and trusts their judgement. In the ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
There should always be some room for skepticism, even in the face of high intersubjective agreement.
For example, there are many common optical illusions, which most people mis-interpret (even if you ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's subjective experiences?
There's no convention by which one can answer this question across all societies....
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What would constitute as justification?
Kristian, as usual, is thorough. From a tertiary source:
Justification in the epistemological sense is an essentially contested concept:
The term essentially contested concepts gives a name to a ...
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Can private experiences justify private belief in supernaturalism?
Is important to discriminate between certainty and knowledge. Certainty is a subjective feeling, which can be highly convincing for oneself. Knowledge requires the ability to give supporting arguments ...
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Can I know something but not be able to justify it to anyone else?
The examples @Dcleve gives in his answers for knowing "from pure first person thinking" seem to me examples for the experience of inner certainty. In most cases there is no problem to ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
Nothing is preventing God from revealing to you in person if you are eligible. Just like this site doesn’t tolerate every kind of question and every kind of person for a good reason , similarly God ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
I do not know whether He/She can. Actually He does not want.
A mighty personal being, having created the world but not showing any interest to communicate in an understandable way with his creatures, ...
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Basic truths as self-justified or parajustified
Talk of "self-evident" truths, sometimes called "axioms" (though "axiom" now carries mainly the sense of "not inferred," regardless of the attendant ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
Trust or distrust is a subjective experience. It arises both in the presence and in the absence of intersubjective agreement. Justification efforts sometimes arise alongside the trust or distrust in ...
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Can private experiences justify private belief in supernaturalism?
Well, some things are meant to be subjective ; no-one can tell you whether your love for someone is rational or not; love is supernatural after all, perhaps life too. It's what YOU believe that counts ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
This is an extremely straightforward application of Bayes' theorem.
Suppose we give prior values to:
The probability P(H) that person A has an hallucination (using what we know about A, or what we ...
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To what extent is intersubjective agreement required for one to be justified in trusting one's own subjective experiences?
Strictly speaking, intersubjective agreement is in-and-of-itself a personal subjective experience, and is therefore not entirely trustworthy.
In short; intersubjective agreement isn't a foolproof way ...
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Is the (truth of) justification of political beliefs necessary given Pyrrhonism?
To my knowledge, all justifications are (easy) prey to Agrippa's trilemma. I've seen political debates and they do consist of arguments in the philophical sense - we should raise/lower taxes, we ...
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