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Ideas for Norman Malcolm, Laurence Bonjour and Christopher Peacocke
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
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Externalist theories of knowledge are one species of foundationalism [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs
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The big problem for foundationalism is to explain how basic beliefs are possible [Bonjour]
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Conscious states have built-in awareness of content, so we know if a conceptual description of it is correct [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations
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A priori justification requires understanding but no experience [Bonjour]
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A priori justification can vary in degree [Bonjour]
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You can't explain away a priori justification as analyticity, and you can't totally give it up [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations
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The main argument for foundationalism is that all other theories involve a regress leading to scepticism [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
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The induction problem blocks any attempted proof of physical statements [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
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A coherence theory of justification can combine with a correspondence theory of truth [Bonjour]
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There will always be a vast number of equally coherent but rival systems [Bonjour]
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Empirical coherence must attribute reliability to spontaneous experience [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism
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The best explanation of coherent observations is they are caused by and correspond to reality [Bonjour]
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A well written novel cannot possibly match a real belief system for coherence [Bonjour]
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The objection that a negated system is equally coherent assume that coherence is consistency [Bonjour]
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A coherent system can be justified with initial beliefs lacking all credibility [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
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My incoherent beliefs about art should not undermine my very coherent beliefs about physics [Bonjour]
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Coherence seems to justify empirical beliefs about externals when there is no external input [Bonjour]
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Coherentists must give a reason why coherent justification is likely to lead to the truth [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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Extreme externalism says no more justification is required than the truth of the belief [Bonjour]
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Externalist theories of justification don't require believers to have reasons for their beliefs [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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Reliabilists disagree over whether some further requirement is needed to produce knowledge [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism
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External reliability is not enough, if the internal state of the believer is known to be irrational [Bonjour]
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If the reliable facts producing a belief are unknown to me, my belief is not rational or responsible [Bonjour]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification
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Even if there is no obvious irrationality, it may be irrational to base knowledge entirely on external criteria [Bonjour]
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Externalism means we have no reason to believe, which is strong scepticism [Bonjour]
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