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Single Idea 8831
[filed under theme 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection
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Full Idea
Introspection should be regarded as a form of retrospection. Thus, a justified belief that I am 'now' in pain gets its justificational status from a relevant, though brief, causal history.
Gist of Idea
Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history
Source
Alvin I. Goldman (What is Justified Belief? [1976], II)
Book Ref
'Epistemology - An Anthology', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Kim,J. [Blackwell 2000], p.348
A Reaction
He cites Hobbes and Ryle as having held this view. See Idea 6668. I am unclear why the history must be 'causal'. I may not know the cause of the pain. I may not believe an event which causes a proposition, or I may form a false belief from it.
Related Idea
Idea 6668
If the present does not exist, then consciousness must be memory of the immediate past [Marshall]
The
16 ideas
from Alvin I. Goldman
4047
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Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles
[Goldman]
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4048
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Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories
[Goldman]
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4049
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The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable
[Goldman]
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4044
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Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count
[Goldman]
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4045
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Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count
[Goldman]
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4043
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Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes
[Goldman]
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4262
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If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant
[Goldman]
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6871
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We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many
[Goldman]
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6872
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Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory
[Goldman]
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6873
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Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously
[Goldman]
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6874
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Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence
[Goldman]
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6875
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Reliability involves truth, and truth is external
[Goldman]
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8831
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Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history
[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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8830
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A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it
[Goldman]
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8832
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If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them
[Goldman]
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