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[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism ]

Full Idea

A third sort of rational account (after giving an image, or analysing elements) is being able to mention some mark which differentiates the object in question ('the sun is the brightest heavenly body').

Gist of Idea

A rational account involves giving an image, or analysis, or giving a differentiating mark

Source

Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 208c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.127


A Reaction

This is Plato's clearest statement of what would be involved in adding the necessary logos to your true belief. An image of it, or an analysis, or an individuation. How about a cause?


The 24 ideas with the same theme [reasons to favour internalist justifcation]:

Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]
A rational account might be seeing an image of one's belief, like a reflection in a mirror [Plato]
A rational account involves giving an image, or analysis, or giving a differentiating mark [Plato]
Anyone who knows, must know that they know, and even know that they know that they know.. [Spinoza]
To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert]
Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being [Hegel]
Reasons for beliefs are not the same as evidence [Davidson]
We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman]
Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman]
Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman]
A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman]
Epistemic norms are internalised procedural rules for reasoning [Pollock]
For internalists we must actually know that the fact caused the belief [Dancy,J]
Internalists tend to favour coherent justification, but not the coherence theory of truth [Dancy,J]
Internalism about justification implies that there is a right to believe something [Audi,R]
Internalism says if anything external varies, the justifiability of the belief does not vary [Pollock/Cruz]
Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid]
Internalists say the reasons for belief must be available to the subject, and externalists deny this [O'Grady]
Epistemic internalism usually says justification must be accessible by reflection [Pritchard,D]
'Access' internalism says responsibility needs access; weaker 'mentalism' needs mental justification [Kvanvig]
Internalists are much more interested in evidence than externalists are [McGrew]
'Mentalist' internalism seems to miss the main point, if it might not involve an agent's access [Vahid]
Strong access internalism needs actual awareness; weak versions need possibility of access [Vahid]
Maybe we need access to our justification, and also to know why it justifies [Vahid]