Justified Belief from Unjustified Belief |
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Authors: | Peter Murphy |
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Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy and ReligionUniversity of Indianapolis |
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Abstract: | Under what conditions is a belief inferentially justified? A partial answer is found in Justification from Justification (JFJ): a belief is inferentially justified only if all of the beliefs from which it is essentially inferred are justified. After reviewing some important features of JFJ, I offer a counterexample to it. Then I outline a positive suggestion for how to think about inferentially justified beliefs while still retaining a basing condition. I end by concluding that epistemologists need a model of inferentially justified belief that is more permissive and more complex than JFJ. |
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