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Single Idea 2746
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
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Full Idea
How can a causal analysis of justification show that I know that all men die?
Gist of Idea
How can a causal theory of justification show that all men die?
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 2.3)
Book Ref
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.34
A Reaction
I presume he means that inductive generalisations can't be purely causal. The claim that men are immortal is absurd because it is 'unconnected' to what actually happens.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[justification needs a causal link from facts to beliefs]:
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11052
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Psychological logic can't distinguish justification from causes of a belief
[Frege]
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3790
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Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents
[Wittgenstein]
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3832
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Causes (usually events) are not the same as reasons (which are never events)
[Searle]
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8798
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Vision causes and justifies beliefs; but to some extent the cause is the justification
[Sosa]
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16279
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General causal theories of knowledge are refuted by mathematics
[Lewis]
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3795
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Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified)
[Dennett]
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2746
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How can a causal theory of justification show that all men die?
[Dancy,J]
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2747
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Causal theories don't allow for errors in justification
[Dancy,J]
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3569
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In the causal theory of knowledge the facts must cause the belief
[Williams,M]
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3567
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How could there be causal relations to mathematical facts?
[Williams,M]
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3586
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Only a belief can justify a belief
[Williams,M]
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3898
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My belief that it will rain tomorrow can't be caused by its raining tomorrow
[Scruton]
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6358
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One belief may cause another, without being the basis for the second belief
[Pollock/Cruz]
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10350
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Cultures decide causal routes, and they can be critically assessed
[Kusch]
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