PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Foundationalism, Inductive Reasoning, Circular Reasoning
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Justified belief: knowledge requires truth while justified belief does not. Knowledge: s knows that p, so p must be true. Justified belief: s has a justified belief, but no truth: knowledge has the impossibility of error, while justified belief does not. Justified belief deals with probability of error. Your present experience doesn"t make it certain, but it does seem more plausible to say your experiences make it very probable. Regular skepticism attacks knowledge claiming that due to impossibility, we have no or almost no knowledge. Justified belief skepticism attacks rationality, claiming we have no reason to think that any belief is either more or less probably than any other: example: no reason to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow. Our expectations of the future and generalizations are based on evidence that isn"t deductively conclusive. Induction: not deductively valid for generalizations or predications of the future. There is absolutely no rational justification for our beliefs, it"s just a habit.
