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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge' and 'Introduction to 'Modality''

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

8804	Reasons for beliefs are not the same as evidence [Davidson]
	Full Idea: We must find a reason for supposing most of our beliefs are true that is not a form of evidence.
	From: Donald Davidson (Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge [1983], p.158)
	A reaction: This simple observation strikes me as being a key truth in epistemology. It is the same confusion that creates Jackson's Knowledge Argument (Idea 7377) against physicalism (that experiencing red can be thought to be knowledge).