PHL340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Episodic Memory, Mnemonic, Echoic Memory
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Mnemonic bootstrapping problem: forming a belief that p is sufficient to justify you in believing that p, so long s you can remember that p later on. So it looks like all of our beliefs (at least those we remembered) are justified. But this makes knowledge too easy : eg/ you read tarot cards that some team is going to win. That team happens to win and so you assume that the reason was cause of tarot cards and not their skill. Your belief is justified by something that is not reasonable and so your knowledge about the winning team was attained too easily. Cause your belief is justified during the initial experience and its preserved through memory. Doxastic justification (justification as activity): s has doxastic justification for her belief that p. Iff s explicitly formed her belief on the basis of good reasons (eg/ she called her reasons to mind when forming her beliefs)
