LWSO 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Belief, Reliabilism, Evidentialism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 313
• Professor: Kirsten Kramar

Document Summary

1: he means that you are only entitled to what you can argue for. Opinion requires justification you are entitle to that which you can defined. You need to defend those opinion and justify those opinions. Entitled to an opinion" means entitled to have your views treated as serious candidates for the truth" then it"s pretty clearly false. Rationalists say they believe in facts over feelings and logic over emotions. they do not hold that humans are purely rational creatures; they just think that reason alone should be used to answer moral and political questions. In brief, empiricism (live experiences) just having had the exp of something doesn"t make it true, the exp based claims can be mistaken. 3: knowledge is, we refer to such knowledge using the schema s knows that p", where s" stands for the subject who has knowledge and p" for the proposition that is known.