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Single Idea 9165
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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Full Idea
Reliability is not a 'factual property'; in calling a rule reasonable we are evaluating it, and all that makes sense to ask about is what we value. We place a high value on the reliability of our inductive and perceptual rules that lead to truth.
Gist of Idea
Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes
Source
Hartry Field (Apriority as an Evaluative Notion [2000], 5)
Book Ref
'New Essays on the A Priori', ed/tr. Boghossian,P /Peacocke,C [OUP 2000], p.138
A Reaction
This doesn't seem to be a contradiction of reliabilism, since truth is a pretty widespread epistemological value. If you do value truth, then eyes are pretty reliable organs for attaining it. Reliabilism is still wrong, but not for this reason.
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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