PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Belief
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You perceive what you think you know/you justify believe. Justification is a process a status and a property. Two justification notions that are intimately related: 1. If one justifiably believes in something, one is also justified in believing it (converse is not true) not everything we are justified in believing is something we do believe 2. Situational justification- based on the situation one is in, status. We cannot have a justified belief without being in a position to have it. Without situational justification, we are not in such a position. Belief justification occurs when a belief is grounded in, and thus in a way supported by, something that gives one situational justification for that belief. Knowledge would not be possible without belief justification. Knowledge and justification are not only interesting in their own right as central epistemological topics; they also represent positive values in the life of every reasonable person.
