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justified belief ↔ %Truth

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related 2.58 — strongly supporting 5 facts

The concepts are related because justified beliefs are theorized to be more likely to be true [1], [2], and are fundamentally linked to the concept of truth within traditional and social epistemology [3], [4], even though justification does not provide an absolute guarantee of truth [5].

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Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2 facts
claimJustified beliefs are presumably more likely to be true than unjustified beliefs.
claimJustified beliefs are presumably more likely to be true than unjustified beliefs.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Matthias Steup, Ram Neta · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact
perspectiveProponents of the extensionist view of social epistemology maintain that knowledge and justified belief are linked to truth and that objective norms of rationality exist.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 1 fact
claimJustification does not guarantee truth, as a person can form a justified belief that is false based on strong but misleading evidence.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Matthias Steup, Ram Neta · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact
perspectiveProponents of the view that social epistemology is an extension of traditional epistemology believe that knowledge and justified belief are linked to truth and that objective norms of rationality exist.