PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wilfrid Sellars, Coherentism, Foundationalism
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Foundationalism and coherentism sellars: the myth of the given elgin: can beliefs be. Justification: beliefs can be justified and true, beliefs can be justified and false, beliefs can be unjustified and true, beliefs can be unjustified and false, some beliefs are more justified than others. In order words, your belief is not justified cause it ties to a foundational truth, but because it ties to other beliefs that you have. Wilfrid sellars: 1912-1989, wrote on epistemology, metaphysics, lots of other things, tried to reconcile the way that people view the world and that science views the world, thought philosophers and scientists should be friends. Foundationalism: there is an apple , how do you know that, inference from seeing something red, seeing something of a certain shape, how do you know that you seeing something red, i know it immediately and non-inferentially.
