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Single Idea 8796
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations
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Full Idea
A single belief can trail at once regresses of both sorts: one terminating and one not.
Gist of Idea
A single belief can trail two regresses, one terminating and one not
Source
Ernest Sosa (The Raft and the Pyramid [1980], §6)
Book Ref
'Epistemology - An Anthology', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Kim,J. [Blackwell 2000], p.141
A Reaction
This makes foundationalism possible, while admitting the existence of regresses. It is a good point, and triumphalist anti-foundationalists can't just point out a regress and then smugly troop off to the pub.
The
20 ideas
from Ernest Sosa
8876
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Much propositional knowledge cannot be formulated, as in recognising a face
[Sosa]
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8877
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We can't attain a coherent system by lopping off any beliefs that won't fit
[Sosa]
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8878
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It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching
[Sosa]
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8879
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Fully comprehensive beliefs may not be knowledge
[Sosa]
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8880
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In reducing arithmetic to self-evident logic, logicism is in sympathy with rationalism
[Sosa]
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8881
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Most of our knowledge has insufficient sensory support
[Sosa]
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8882
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Perception may involve thin indexical concepts, or thicker perceptual concepts
[Sosa]
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8883
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Do beliefs only become foundationally justified if we fully attend to features of our experience?
[Sosa]
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8884
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The phenomenal concept of an eleven-dot pattern does not include the concept of eleven
[Sosa]
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8885
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Some features of a thought are known directly, but others must be inferred
[Sosa]
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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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8799
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If mental states are not propositional, they are logically dumb, and cannot be foundations
[Sosa]
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8794
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There are very few really obvious truths, and not much can be proved from them
[Sosa]
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8795
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Mental states cannot be foundational if they are not immune to error
[Sosa]
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8796
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A single belief can trail two regresses, one terminating and one not
[Sosa]
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8797
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The negation of all my beliefs about my current headache would be fully coherent
[Sosa]
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8442
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What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence?
[Sosa]
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8443
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Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts
[Sosa]
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8444
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Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall?
[Sosa]
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8445
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The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator
[Sosa]
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