Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Hermarchus, Jaegwon Kim and Robert Audi
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma
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Justification is either unanchored (infinite or circular), or anchored (in knowledge or non-knowledge) [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
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Internalism about justification implies that there is a right to believe something [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
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It seems impossible to logically deduce physical knowledge from indubitable sense data [Kim]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
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Maths may be consistent with observations, but not coherent [Audi,R]
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It is very hard to show how much coherence is needed for justification [Audi,R]
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A consistent madman could have a very coherent belief system [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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Consistent accurate prediction looks like knowledge without justified belief [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
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A reliability theory of knowledge seems to involve truth as correspondence [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism
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'Reliable' is a very imprecise term, and may even mean 'justified' [Audi,R]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
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There are two contradictory arguments about everything [Kim]
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Protagoras says arguments on both sides are always equal [Kim, by Seneca]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
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Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people [Plato on Kim]
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Why didn't Protagoras begin by saying "a tadpole is the measure of all things"? [Plato on Kim]
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