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Full Idea
Are foundationally justified beliefs perhaps those that result from attending to our experience and to features of it or in it?
Gist of Idea
Do beliefs only become foundationally justified if we fully attend to features of our experience?
Source
Ernest Sosa (Beyond internal Foundations to external Virtues [2003], 7.3)
Book Ref
Bonjour,L/Sosa,E: 'Epistemic Justification' [Blackwells 2003], p.128
A Reaction
A promising suggestion. I do think our ideas acquire a different epistmological status once we have given them our full attention, though is that merely full consciousness, or full thoughtful evaluation? The latter I take to be what matters. Cf Idea 2414.
Related Idea
Idea 2414 When distracted we can totally misjudge our own experiences [Chalmers]
| 8876 | Much propositional knowledge cannot be formulated, as in recognising a face [Sosa] |
| 8877 | We can't attain a coherent system by lopping off any beliefs that won't fit [Sosa] |
| 8879 | Fully comprehensive beliefs may not be knowledge [Sosa] |
| 8878 | It is acceptable to say a supermarket door 'knows' someone is approaching [Sosa] |
| 8880 | In reducing arithmetic to self-evident logic, logicism is in sympathy with rationalism [Sosa] |
| 8881 | Most of our knowledge has insufficient sensory support [Sosa] |
| 8882 | Perception may involve thin indexical concepts, or thicker perceptual concepts [Sosa] |
| 8883 | Do beliefs only become foundationally justified if we fully attend to features of our experience? [Sosa] |
| 8884 | The phenomenal concept of an eleven-dot pattern does not include the concept of eleven [Sosa] |
| 8885 | Some features of a thought are known directly, but others must be inferred [Sosa] |