PHIL 1050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Reductionism
15 Apr 2016
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The internalist camp if you really can"t think of any supporting evidence, you are in trouble. Your belief about everest being the tallest mountain can"t count as knowledge if there is nothing accessible to you that supports it. Knowledge is grounded by your own experience and by your own capacity to reason. Interalists place a special emphasis on what you can do with resources that are available from the first-person perspective: if you can"t see for yourself why you should believe something, you don"t actually know it. The subject"s own awareness of good grounds is an essential part of what distinguishes knowing from lower states like guessing. Externalist camp knowledge is a relationship between a person and a fact, and this relationship can be in place even when the person doesn"t meet the interalist"s demands for first person access to supporting grounds.
