PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Priori And A Posteriori, Foundationalism
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Descartes argues that knowledge is internally certifiable: premises are either true by a priori or introspection. Reliability theory of knowledge (rtk): knowledge requires particular linking premise to be true not through introspection or a priori reasoning. The subject doesn"t need to know it is true; it just has to be true. Mercury column is the representation of the outside world, in other words, the subject"s mind. Reading of the temperature is what is being represented of the outside world, in other words, the actual outside world. Reliability states that is isn"t enough to only right once since could be by chance, but that there is a necessary connection between the inside and outside worlds of the subject. If reads n, then it must be n. Concept of causality: needs to depend on actual relationship between subject and the environment: hypothetical consideration that the subject"s sensory state is reliable of the environment, considers impossibility.
