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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma
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Foundations are justified by non-beliefs, or circularly, or they need no justification [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
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For internalists we must actually know that the fact caused the belief [Dancy,J]
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Internalists tend to favour coherent justification, but not the coherence theory of truth [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
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Foundationalism requires inferential and non-inferential justification [Dancy,J]
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Foundationalists must accept not only the basic beliefs, but also rules of inference for further progress [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs
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If basic beliefs can be false, falsehood in non-basic beliefs might by a symptom [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
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Beliefs can only be infallible by having almost no content [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
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Coherentism gives a possible justification of induction, and opposes scepticism [Dancy,J]
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Idealists must be coherentists, but coherentists needn't be idealists [Dancy,J]
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For coherentists justification and truth are not radically different things [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism
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If it is empirical propositions which have to be coherent, this eliminates coherent fiction [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification
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Externalism could even make belief unnecessary (e.g. in animals) [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
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How can a causal theory of justification show that all men die? [Dancy,J]
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Causal theories don't allow for errors in justification [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
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Coherentism moves us towards a more social, shared view of knowledge [Dancy,J]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
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What is the point of arguing against knowledge, if being right undermines your own argument? [Dancy,J]
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