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Single Idea 1670
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs
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Full Idea
Anyone who understands anything simpliciter (as basic) must be incapable of being persuaded to change his mind.
Gist of Idea
When you understand basics, you can't be persuaded to change your mind
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 72b04)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.4
A Reaction
A typical Aristotle test which seems rather odd to us. Surely I can change my mind, and decide that something is not basic after all? But, says Aristotle, then you didn't really think it was basic.
The
15 ideas
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[contents and origin of foundational beliefs]:
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1670
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When you understand basics, you can't be persuaded to change your mind
[Aristotle]
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20795
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Some things are their own criterion, such as straightness, a set of scales, or light
[Sext.Empiricus]
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5004
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We can know basic Principles without further knowledge, but not the other way round
[Descartes]
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23245
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Knowledge can't be its own foundation; there has to be regress of higher and higher authorities
[Fichte]
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6944
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Demonstration does not rest on first principles of reason or sensation, but on freedom from actual doubt
[Peirce]
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4257
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The big problem for foundationalism is to explain how basic beliefs are possible
[Bonjour]
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2756
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If basic beliefs can be false, falsehood in non-basic beliefs might by a symptom
[Dancy,J]
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8896
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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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8853
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Basic judgements are immune from error because they have no content
[Williams,M]
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3580
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Experience must be meaningful to act as foundations
[Williams,M]
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6353
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People rarely have any basic beliefs, and never enough for good foundations
[Pollock/Cruz]
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6361
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Foundationalism requires self-justification, not incorrigibility
[Pollock/Cruz]
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4582
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Basic beliefs are self-evident, or sensual, or intuitive, or revealed, or guaranteed
[Baggini /Fosl]
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8845
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An experience's having propositional content doesn't make it a belief
[Pryor]
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19719
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'Moderate' foundationalism has basic justification which is defeasible
[Grundmann]
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