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nonbasic beliefs
Also known as: non-basic beliefs
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Epistemic Justification – Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology press.rebus.community 6 facts
claimNon-basic beliefs require support from at least one basic belief.
perspectiveEvidentialist foundationalists agree that justification has a foundationalist structure and is supported by evidence, but they disagree on the specific mechanisms of justification for basic and non-basic beliefs.
claimContemporary foundationalists, including both strong and modest varieties, hold that non-basic beliefs can be justified through deduction, induction, and abduction from justified basic beliefs.
claimRené Descartes insisted that non-basic beliefs must be justified by deduction from justified basic beliefs because he required a theory of knowledge where knowing a proposition 'p' implies being 'epistemically certain' that 'p' is true.
claimFoundationalists are epistemologists who believe that justification has a structure consisting of justified foundational (or basic) beliefs that serve as the epistemic foundation for justified non-basic beliefs.
claimCartesian foundationalism, named after the early modern philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), is a strong foundationalist view claiming that non-basic beliefs are justified only by deduction from justified basic beliefs.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 3 facts
claimFor a foundationalist account of justification to be plausible, it must explain what makes basic beliefs justified and how basic beliefs justify nonbasic beliefs.
claimFoundationalism posits that justified beliefs are structured like a building, consisting of a foundation of basic beliefs and a superstructure of nonbasic beliefs that rely on the foundation for justification.
claimFoundationalists typically define the justificatory relation between basic and nonbasic beliefs as non-deductive, meaning a basic belief B justifies a nonbasic belief B* if B makes B* likely to be true, rather than requiring B to entail B*.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimCoherentism rejects the distinction between basic and non-basic beliefs, asserting that the justification of any belief depends on other beliefs.
claimFoundationalism posits that basic beliefs serve as the foundation for all other knowledge, while non-basic beliefs act as a superstructure resting on that foundation.
claimFoundherentism is an intermediary position that combines elements of foundationalism and coherentism by accepting the distinction between basic and non-basic beliefs while asserting that the justification of non-basic beliefs depends on coherence with other beliefs.
Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 2 facts
claimThe regress argument in epistemology posits that there are two kinds of justified beliefs: basic beliefs, which begin a series of justified beliefs, and non-basic beliefs, which are based on other justified beliefs.
claimBasic beliefs are defined in foundationalism as beliefs that are able to confer justification on other, non-basic beliefs without having their own justification conferred upon them by other beliefs.