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Full Idea
Basic judgements threaten to buy their immunity from error at the cost of being drained of descriptive content altogether.
Gist of Idea
Basic judgements are immune from error because they have no content
Source
Michael Williams (Without Immediate Justification [2005], §4)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology', ed/tr. Steup,M/Sosa,E [Blackwell 2005], p.210
A Reaction
This is probably the key objection to foundationalism. As you import sufficient content into basic experiences to enable them to actually justify a set of beliefs, you find you have imported all sorts of comparisons and classifications as well.
8849 | Traditional foundationalism is radically internalist [Williams,M] |
8851 | Coherentists say that regress problems are assuming 'linear' justification [Williams,M] |
8852 | In the context of scepticism, externalism does not seem to be an option [Williams,M] |
8853 | Basic judgements are immune from error because they have no content [Williams,M] |
8855 | Sensory experience may be fixed, but it can still be misdescribed [Williams,M] |