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Experience and belief are linked through their roles in epistemic justification and cognitive content, as seen in how experience informs the content of belief [1], serves as a standard for evaluating the coherence of beliefs [2], and acts as a boundary condition for a priori justification [3]. Furthermore, the relationship is explored through the structural analogy of how both concepts function within a subject's mental state [4] and their combined role in proper functionalist evaluations [5].
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Epistemic Justification – Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology press.rebus.community 1 fact
imageThe table below illustrates how proper functionalism evaluates justification based on cognitive design and current experience:
| Person | Cognitive Design | Current Experience | Current Belief | Accords with Cognitive Design? | Implication of Proper Functionalism |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cal | When in M1 (a tactile sensation as of holding a billiard ball), produce belief B1 ("I'm holding a small, round object"). | M2: an olfactory sensation as of a rose | B1: “I’m holding a small round object.” | No | Unjustified |
| Mal | When in M2 (an olfactory sensation as of a rose), produce belief B1 ("I'm holding a small, round object"). | M2: an olfactory sensation as of a rose | B1: “I’m holding a small round object.” | Yes | Justified |
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers suggests that materialists might be able to account for the necessary connection between belief and experience by viewing it as an automatic product of the role experience plays in constituting the content of the belief.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe analogy of belief suggests that just as the concept of truth figures in the mode but not the explicit content of every belief, every experience is an experience of one's own without necessarily having the content that such and such is experienced by oneself.
Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimErnest Sosa argues that coherentism is flawed because it fails to give adequate epistemic weight to experience, as a belief can cohere with one's other beliefs while conflicting with one's experience.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
formulaA subject S is justified a priori in believing a proposition p if and only if the justification for believing p does not depend on any experience.