PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basic Belief, Foundationalism

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

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Plantinga (properly basic) - religious belief without evidence cont. [the] evidentialist objection to theistic belief is typically rooted in classical foundationalism [it] is self-referentially incoherent. (c) p is properly basic for s if and only if p is self-evident, incorrigible, or evident to the senses for s. [either] he takes (c) as basic or he doesn"t. Q: some critics of this approach claim that the examples of properly basic beliefs you cite (e. g. seeing a tree) are not sufficiently similar to belief in god for the latter to qualify as properly basic. For one thing, they say, belief in god is not universal like some of the other beliefs. A: people have said that, but i don"t know why i should believe that. ) i"m not arguing that belief in god is properly basic because it so greatly resembles such experience.