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Single Idea 303
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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Full Idea
If each of you says how many teeth the other has, and when they are counted we find you do know, we will believe your other claims as well.
Gist of Idea
Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims
Source
Plato (Euthydemus [c.379 BCE], 294c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Early Socratic Dialogues', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1987], p.353
A Reaction
This is the clairvoyant problem for reliabilism, if truth is delivered for no apparent reason. Useful, but hardly knowledge. HOW did you know the number of teeth?
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[reliability that is needed for secure knowledge]:
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303
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Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims
[Plato]
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22760
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Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them
[Sext.Empiricus]
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22325
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A belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process
[Ramsey]
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19724
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Belief is knowledge if it is true, certain, and obtained by a reliable process
[Ramsey]
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6356
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Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function'
[Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]
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6875
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Reliability involves truth, and truth is external
[Goldman]
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8829
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Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth
[Goldman]
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8810
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If someone rejects good criticism through arrogance, that is irrelevant to whether they have knowledge
[Feldman/Conee]
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8889
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Reliabilists disagree over whether some further requirement is needed to produce knowledge
[Bonjour]
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3573
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Externalist reliability refers to a range of conventional conditions
[Williams,M]
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2740
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A reliability theory of knowledge seems to involve truth as correspondence
[Audi,R]
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9165
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Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes
[Field,H]
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10343
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Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason
[Kusch]
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19727
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Reliabilist knowledge is evidence based belief, with high conditional probability
[Comesaņa]
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