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Single Idea 9382

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification]

Full Idea

I call 'entitlement' (as opposed to justification) the epistemic rights or warrants that need not be understood by or even be accessible to the subject.

Gist of Idea

Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications'

Source

Tyler Burge (Content Preservation [1993]), quoted by Paul Boghossian - Analyticity Reconsidered §III

Book Reference

-: 'Nous' [-], p.20


A Reaction

I espouse a coherentism that has both internal and external components, and is mediated socially. In Burge's sense, animals will sometimes have 'entitlement'. I prefer, though, not to call this 'knowledge'. 'Entitled true belief' is good.