Single Idea 8879

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique]

Full Idea

One's beliefs can be comprehensively coherent without amounting to knowledge.

Gist of Idea

Fully comprehensive beliefs may not be knowledge

Source

Ernest Sosa (Beyond internal Foundations to external Virtues [2003], 6.6)

Book Reference

Bonjour,L/Sosa,E: 'Epistemic Justification' [Blackwells 2003], p.116


A Reaction

Beliefs that are fully foundational or reliably sourced may also fail to be knowledge. I take it that any epistemological theory must be fallibilist (Idea 6898). Rational coherentism will clearly be sensitive to error.

Related Idea

Idea 6898 Fallibilism is the view that all knowledge-claims are provisional [Mautner]