01:730:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coherentism, Fallibilism, Externalism
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A network of beliefs that included both p and not-p is not coherent (contradiction) No matter how coherence is de ned, there will be a lot of very different. An account of epistemic justi cation starts with a network of interrelated beliefs. A strategy for dealism with the isolation problem. Realiabilism links the epistemic justi cation of beliefs to the processes. that produce the beliefs. A justi ed belief is a belief that is produced by a reliable process. Many perceptual processes are reliable, provided they are used in the right environment. Many epistemologists think that justi cation must be linked to truth. Justi cation a person has for a belief must guarantee that the belief is true. If knowledge requires the kind of justi cation that guarantees truth, it follows that we have very little knowledge, perhaps none at all. Bc we have many true beliefs that we adequately justi ed.
