16 ideas
8830 | A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman] |
19682 | Internalists are much more interested in evidence than externalists are [McGrew] |
8832 | If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them [Goldman] |
19687 | Absence of evidence proves nothing, and weird claims need special evidence [McGrew] |
19684 | Does spotting a new possibility count as evidence? [McGrew] |
19688 | Every event is highly unlikely (in detail), but may be perfectly plausible [McGrew] |
19686 | Criminal law needs two separate witnesses, but historians will accept one witness [McGrew] |
19680 | Maybe all evidence consists of beliefs, rather than of facts [McGrew] |
19681 | If all evidence is propositional, what is the evidence for the proposition? Do we face a regress? [McGrew] |
19689 | Several unreliable witnesses can give good support, if they all say the same thing [McGrew] |
19683 | Narrow evidentialism relies wholly on propositions; the wider form includes other items [McGrew] |
8829 | Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman] |
19685 | Falsificationism would be naive if even a slight discrepancy in evidence killed a theory [McGrew] |
8831 | Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history [Goldman] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |