Single Idea 19727

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge]

Full Idea

The best definition of reliabilism seems to be: the agent has evidence, and bases the belief on the evidence, and the actual conditional reliability of the belief on the evidence is high enough.

Gist of Idea

Reliabilist knowledge is evidence based belief, with high conditional probability

Source

Juan Comesaņa (Reliabilism [2011], 4.4)

Book Reference

'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.185


A Reaction

This is Comesaņa's own theory, derived from Alston 1998, and based on conditional probabilities.