Intro to Philosophy Final 5

don’t have to know the grounds of a belief

Anti-awareness thesis
a proposition is worthy of belief until proven unworthy

Anti-skeptical thesis
belief producing faculties (perception, memory, testimony, argument) are appropriate grounds for our belief

Anti-doxastic thesis
A person S knows P if S believes P.
P is true.
P is grounded in a belief producing gaculty and P is not defeated by some other better grounded belief.

Definition of Knowledge:
not necessary to resolve all doubts

Not evidentialist
evidence is relevant to belief

Not fideist

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Intro to Philosophy Final 5

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Intro to Philosophy Final 5

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