PHI 3398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coherentism

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Explicit goal: showing that belief is veridical by nature. Principal goal: providing an answer to the skeptic. At least 4 stages in the argument. The 4 stages in davidson"s argument: the coherentist theory of justification, true beliefs of a person constitute knowledge, most of a person"s beliefs are true, belief is intrinsically veridical. This argument is an instance of mollus tollens: c i, i, therefore, c. Our beliefs are justified, because they"re coherent. Important to note that the argument is not finished: We want: to show that our beliefs are true and justified. Established that only a belief can justify another belief. We have not: established that our beliefs are true. Third stage: most of a person"s beliefs are true. Strictly speaking, the third stage shows that: we have to suppose that most a person"s beliefs are true. We start from the interpreted"s statements and the shared world. We try to make his statements correspond to ours.

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