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Ideas of Alvin I. Goldman, by Text
[American, b.1938, Professor at the University of Arizona for many years.]
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1976
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What is Justified Belief?
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II
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p.345
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8829
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Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth
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II
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p.348
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8831
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Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history
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II
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p.348
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8830
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A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it
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III
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p.350
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8832
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If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them
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1980
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The Internalist Conception of Justification
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§VIII
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p.57
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4262
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If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant
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1993
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Phil Applications of Cognitive Science
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p.103
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p.103
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4047
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Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles
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p.109
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p.109
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4048
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Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories
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p.117
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p.117
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4049
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The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable
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p.58
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p.58
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4044
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Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count
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p.60
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p.60
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4045
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Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count
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p.7
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p.7
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4043
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Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes
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§2
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p.8
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6871
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We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many
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§3
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p.10
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Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory
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§3
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p.11
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6873
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Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously
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§4
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p.13
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Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence
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§6
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p.17
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Reliability involves truth, and truth is external
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