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Full Idea
If it is intellectually required that one try to believe all and only truths (as Chisholm says), ...then it is possible to believe some unsubstantiated proposition in a reckless endeavour to believe a truth, and happen to be right.
Gist of Idea
If the only aim is to believe truths, that justifies recklessly believing what is unsupported (if it is right)
Source
E Conee / R Feldman (Evidentialism [1985], 'Justification')
Book Ref
Conee,E/Feldman,R: 'Evidentialism' [OUP 2004], p.88
A Reaction
This implies doxastic voluntarism. Sorry! I meant, this implies that we can control what we believe, when actually we believe what impinges on us as facts.
19524 | We don't have the capacity to know all the logical consequences of our beliefs [Conee/Feldman] |
19525 | If the only aim is to believe truths, that justifies recklessly believing what is unsupported (if it is right) [Conee/Feldman] |