Full Idea
Internalists say that externalism is inadequate because it makes the obtaining of knowledge and justified beliefs too easy
Gist of Idea
Externalism makes the acquisition of knowledge too easy?
Source
Hamid Vahid (Externalism/Internalism [2011], 4)
Book Reference
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.153
A Reaction
This looks like a key issue in epistemology. Do children and animals have lots of knowledge, which they soak up unthinkingly, or do only thinking adults really 'know' things? Why not have degrees of knowledge?
Related Idea
Idea 19712 Maybe there is plain 'animal' knowledge, and clearly justified 'reflective' knowledge [Vahid]